My favorite Entrepreneur.

So three days I go I was in the car with Dad, heading to university. You know, usual Riyadh mornings, traffic, traffic and more traffic. Suddenly it popped out in my head that I don’t know a lot about my Grandma, since she passed away 2 months before I was born. 

So I started to ask him questions about her, how was her character, what did she used to do. 

He begun telling me some wonderful things about her that I never knew! 

He said that she used to work with her father in their farm, and that she realized that some of the neighbors were poor women, no income and had children, so she decided to start a small business with them in her father’s farm so they can work and have an income and her family could gain more benefits.

So they would come with her, and take the dates out of the Palms, and sell it as it is or make it as deserts and then sell it to people. 

I felt so proud of her to think that way! 

That was like more than 60 years ago. In a small city. 

Then after she got married she started another new business, she would design dress and then sell it for women in the neighborhood. 

for her to be this hard working person, to think a little bit of the box, I believe it’s so great.

And I’m not saying that cause she’s my grandma, I’m saying it because I do believe it was hard for women in that time to work and to do their own businesses.
I hope one day I could be like her, and now I’m proud that I was named after her. ❤🙌🏻

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Herfah

Almost 2 weeks ago Dr. Wafa invited, Ms.Hind one of the managers in Herfah. I’m guessing many of you are thinking “What is Herfah?”

Well, it’s an organization located in AlQassim that teaches small business to grow up. And learn about the business environment. It’s taking someone with small talent and lead them to the light or to the right path to become a great talent.

And Ms.Hind showed us a lot of examples, such as those cute old ladies who were making a qassime desert named klijah

and others who makes beautiful needlework. Even some of those ladies who are making needlework, has cooperated with a Saudi designer, and they named that business, ”Herfah by Naimah”. Basically, it’s about designing a traditional Saudi clothes but in more creative way.

Although, I didn’t like that they used non-Saudi men models to wear these clothes, it didn’t look good them. I think it’s because they’re not used to wear it.

 

Anyway, it really made me happy to see such organizations taking care of small business. And I hope to see more of it in the future.
Best wishes ❤️

Why Entrepreneurs Are Entrepreneurs?

Hello everyone, hope your day is going great.

So today I woke up with one question that was dancing around my head the whole time, “Why Entrepreneurs Are Entrepreneurs?”

So I went searching and I saw this video that was talking about how WhatsApp was found. Mostly, focused of the founders of the App.

 

And now I can tell you guys that I’ve finally had the honor to meet the answer of that question. *Hooray*

It was in this video, they started from the zero point, worked very hard, they were ambitions and they wanted to show the world that they actually did something.

I mean who doesn’t have WhatsApp on their phones?

They took the risk by leaving their jobs to work on their won ideas!

What took me by surprise and made me laugh at the same time is they were rejected to work in a company who years later bought their Apps with 19 billion dollars!

This story reminded me of a quote I’ve read “I Create. I Take risk. I Live My Passion. I Am An Entrepreneur.”

Return back what the world has gave you.

I’ve been looking up for the definitions of social entrepreneurship. and I found a good one by J.Gregory Dess which says “.. It combines passion of a social mission with an image of business like discipline, innovation…”.

But if I could give it my own definition it certainly would be “Return back what the world has gave you.”

You see, the world gave too many things, challenges, experiences… which created your knowledge which leaded to your passion about a certain thing. So why not us those thing to give the world something good.

Social Entrepreneurship has many benefits, I’ll mention some.

Implementing societal change could be the greatest benefit of social entrepreneurship. because it will have a positive impact on the society. Another benefit is the create inspiring solutions where you can have the freedom to explore and create innovation solution that can inspire change.

while I was searching for some social entrepreneurship business so I can share it with you. And I found an amazing one that’s in Japan.

It’s the “Mainichi Newspaper”, this newspaper has created an eco-friendly papers that contains seeds, so if you put water on it, it’ll grow plant.

 

It’s a great innovation! they cut the trees to get paper, so why not use the same paper to grow plants.

I hope one day we all can return back what the world has gave us.

Moneerah A. AlSaber.

 

 

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