Women’s Empowerment

Core Value: We Vote for Inclusivity!

A group of SECorps interns in Ecuador pose with a group of children in Pulingui, Ecuador during the 2014 SE Corps Program. In this photo, the interns were visiting a local school to collect data and information regarding access to clean water. Much of the work that intern groups focus on involves creating access to […]

By |November 4th, 2015|Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Project Empowerment, United States|Comments Off on Core Value: We Vote for Inclusivity!

International Day of Rural Women: Celebrating Female Entrepreneurs Around the World

How can we change the lives of the 500 million women living below the poverty line in rural areas? At Social Entrepreneur Corps (SE Corps), and our sister organization, Community Enterprise Solutions (CE Solutions), we believe that empowerment-focused social work can make a difference. And these five female entrepreneurs throughout Latin America prove that by […]

By |October 15th, 2015|Project Empowerment|Comments Off on International Day of Rural Women: Celebrating Female Entrepreneurs Around the World

The Work is Never Done

I was an intern in the Dominican Republic for three and a half months. And throughout my time spent in the field, there were multiple times that I told myself — and my supervisor — that I would definitely be done with my projects in the next week or so, and would need to look […]

By |July 6th, 2015|Dominican Republic, Flex Volunteer|Comments Off on The Work is Never Done

Teach a Man to Fish

The ancient Chinese proverb says that if you give a man a fish, he eats for a day, but if you teach a man to fish, he eats for a lifetime.Well, the Chinese had the Social Entrepreneur Corps model down before way before we did. Let us explain…

Those words about fish were made a reality […]

By |January 24th, 2014|Guatemala|Comments Off on Teach a Man to Fish