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An abandoned quarry in a wildlife conservancy near Nairobi, Kenya, is about to become an eco-park, and Yale students are helping it get off the ground.
As part of the Global Social Entrepreneurship course taught by Tony Sheldon, a senior lecturer and executive director of the Program on Social Enterprise, Innovation, and Impact, student Shivansh Chaturvedi spent the spring semester consulting with Anzania, which plans to turn the 60-acre quarry into a botanical gardens, art exhibits, educational programming, conference facilities, and outdoor adventures, among other offerings.
"Part of the role we're playing is figuring out what it will take to turn that hole in the ground into a beautiful eco-park," Chaturvedi tells the Yale Daily News.
Anzania was looking for help refining its financial model in order to better understand the kinds of funders who might be interested in investing in the project.
The course was launched in 2008, growing out of a student club that had been arranging trips to work with social impact organizations in developing countries; a similar course pairs students with social enterprises in India.
Sheldon says that GSE projects are true collaborations based on the needs of the enterprises involved.
This spring's cohort traveled to Kenya, where more than 35 organizations had applied Read the Entire Article
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