Empower a Girl: For Self-Reliance

Kole Intellectual Forum (KIFA) is a Community Based Organization that is growing with its community.

It has been realized that: this opinion goes hand in hand with what we already know about collective value, or that the shared conviction that individual members of a community can absolutely impact the experiences of their entire community. This collective effectiveness has been predicted to assume residents’ general comfort, happiness and joy. 

In that version, Kole Intellectual Forum that is deeply rooted within the community is promoting a collective efficacy that is linked with a better self-rated health of neighborhood violence, and better access to health-enhancing resources like medical care, healthy food options, and places to exercise by getting individual residents on board with the process, but not just as a tail-end of receiving; hence, the organization is growing with the community, particularly, when the project of the boys were integrated into the girls project stimulating residents’ general comfort, happiness and joy.

Social enterprises: Creating value to all

Unlike a for-profit organization or company; Kole Intellectual Forum, a Community Based Organization who is a non-profit organization is one such organization that is promoting social enterprising as one of its goal to support its mission. According to the designers of the organization, the purpose of running social enterprise is to enable them to have a revenue-generating business with a twist. Aiming at two goals: that is to, achieve social, cultural, community economic and/or environmental outcomes; and, to earn revenue.

In other words, the social enterprising being run by the organization is meant to give benefit to people and planet and it uses the majority of any profit the get to further their mission. This social enterprise is meant to contribute to reducing economic inequality, improving social justice and to environmental sustainability and the girls those are the beneficiaries stand at the center of the purpose. The revenue generated are used to meet the administrative costs, pay salaries of the staff, support the students in terms of allowances to encourage them to learnt with the interest of getting more if they become self-reliance and the prices of the product, particularly, the school uniforms are cheaper than those at the open markets. Meaning that the benefit of these social enterprises is broad: form the beneficiaries, to the community to the staff and the then organization.