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King's entrepreneurs compete at 2017 Enactus UK National Expo

Social entrepreneurs from Enactus KCL have been selected to compete at the 2017 Enactus National Expo with their project ‘Light Mountain’. 

Selected from 57 teams at the regional finals, the team will present to an audience of 800 people at the ExCel, London on 10-11 April.  

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Light Mountain is a social enterprise that provides clean cooking solutions in Tanzania. Local people produce and sell clean cookstoves to their communities through microfinancing.

The affordable and sustainable cookstoves help reduce deforestation and the harmful health effects of indoor air pollution. Light Mountain have also developed an innovative method for producing fuel briquettes using recycled waste material.

Working in close partnership with local NGOs and village leaders, in the last 12 months, Light Mountain’s cooperative of 7 entrepreneurs in the village of Mkuyuni, Morogoro Region, have already distributed 80 clean cookstoves using affordable repayment plans and improved the lives of more than 400 people.

The project empowers local women and has enabled some families to save enough money to send their children to school.

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The Enactus KCL team are competing to be crowned ‘Enactus UK National Champion’ and for a place at the Enactus World Cup.

3,500 students, business, academic and government leaders from around the globe will gather in London on 26-28 September to showcase how entrepreneurial action and shared innovation is transforming lives and creating a better future.

Enactus KCL are supported by the Entrepreneurship Institute through the Entrepreneurship Support Fund.

Renad Sheraif, President of KCL Enactus said, "Social entrepreneurship is the very fabric of what we do at Enactus KCL and our members are all very excited to participate in this year's National Expo. Last year we placed in the top 10 and we are hoping that we continue growing as a team and place in the top 5 this year!"

Clara Zourray, 3rd year Neuroscience student, Project Leader of Light Mountain and winner of the Entrepreneurship Institute’s Idea Factory Social Impact Award said, “I can’t say how much my journey with Enactus has enriched my experience at King’s. I have been able to take a leadership position and develop my problem-solving skills. I can now pride myself by saying I have done something meaningful that has a tangible impact on a global health issue I care about."

NOTES TO EDITORS

  • Enactus are an international non-profit that believes investing in students who take ENTrepreneurial ACTion for others creates a better world for US all. Working is 36 countries, they have a community of academic and business leaders working with 69,000 students across 1,700 university programmes.

  • Enactus are part of a growing group of people and initiatives at King's working to expand social entrepreneurship. These include the Social Entrepreneurship Initiative, a joint venture between King’s department of International Development and the Public Sector Management Programme, and A Memorandum of Understanding with the Yunus Centre.