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21 August 2017

Classics student's ethical business project will represent the UK at the Enactus World Cup

Classics undergraduate student Jenny Wong's ethical business project will be presented to business leaders from Coca Cola, Amazon, KPMG, British Airways, Tesco, Diageo, Accenture and many more at next month's Enactus World Cup, where the Enactus KCL team will represent the UK after beating 56 other universities.

Classics undergraduate student Jenny Wong's ethical business project will be presented to business leaders from from Coca Cola, Amazon, KPMG, British Airways, Tesco, Diageo, Accenture and many more at next month's Enactus World Cup, where the Enactus KCL team will represent the UK after beating 56 other universities.

Speaking to The Big Issue, Jenny said: “We are helping produce cleaner cooking solutions in Tanzania. We are helping people use their skills to make a sustainable business.

“It began with solar cooking stoves in the Philippines and the idea just grew.”

Cleaner cooking

The King's team's project, 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 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.