Project manager, Social Enterprise Boost Initiative (SEBI), Opal White (left); and private sector development specialist, World Bank, Elaine Tinsley (right), show director general in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Vivian Brown, a clutch bag (among other items) made by Superior Craft and More, owned and operated by a collective of 16 blind Jamaicans, under the SEBI programme. The occasion was the Social Enterprise 101 Business Model seminar at the Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston, on Wednesday, June 7, 2017.
Industry Ministry says social enterprises critical for growth
Director General in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Mr. Vivian Brown, says that social enterprises in Jamaica are now becoming critical agents for growth and development. Social enterprises are businesses with primarily social objectives, and whose surpluses are reinvested in their business or the community. Their primary mission is to solve social, economic or environmental problems at community or national level through effective and ethical business practices. They have the dual responsibility of creating social value and ensuring financial viability...
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