Series: Helping Social Entrepreneurs (8)
8 x 25 minute documentary series produced for the BBC
In this series, Alvin Hall, a business and financial expert who has spent 25-years on Wall Street, is travelling the world helping social entrepreneurs – business people more interested in doing good than making money – become more successful.
CHALLENGES:
Among his challenges – he’s trying to find out whether the poor can borrow their way out of poverty? He sees rats sniffing out land mines in Mozambique and advises how to make the operation more financially secure.
Can an inspirational Indian entrepreneur accept Alvin’s challenge to groom a successor for his highly successful operation?
Can Alvin help the Marine Stewardship Council in their dual task of convincing both fishermen and consumers of the importance of sustainably caught fish?
In Cambodia he advises an organisation helping street children how to boost their income, to help even more youngsters.
PERSONAL STORIES:
One story in Africa is very personal to Alvin, who himself was saved from a life of poverty in the USA by educational scholarships. He is asked to advise an organisation that is helping to broaden girls horizons and raise their expectations through education. Girls are seen as the best way for Africa to prosper. Alvin hopes his advise will help more girls.
INSPIRATIONAL:
These are inspirational stories in which emotions often clash with cold, hard financial facts.
Films in the series
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Helping Social Entrepreneurs – Microfinance & Poverty
Can the poor borrow their way out of poverty? In this episode,…
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Helping Social Entrepreneurs – Riders for Health
In rural Africa, poor transport costs lives. Riders for Health is changing…
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Helping Social Entrepreneurs – Water Management
In India, water management is a very big issue and one Social…
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Helping Social Entrepreneurs – Sustainable Fishing
Sustainable fishing is important for the millions of fishermen who depend on…
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Helping Social Entrepreneurs – Hero Rats
They’re called Hero Rats. Can rats help clear Africa’s landmines? Landmines –…
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Helping Social Entrepreneurs – Partners in Health
Partners In Health believes helping these patients means dealing with their social…
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Helping Social Entrepreneurs – Friends International
Thousands of children live on the streets of the Cambodian capital, Phnom…
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Helping Social Entrepreneurs – Educating Girls
Across Africa, millions of girls are denied a decent education. CAMFED aims…
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