Social entrepreneurs

Social entrepreneurship means creating an economic activity in response to society's social and environmental needs: access to healthcare, energy and housing, combating long-term unemployment, etc.

As participants in the market economy, social enterprises seek to optimize their economic performance to provide solutions for social and environmental problems that neither the public sector nor the traditional economy have been able to address effectively by themselves.

In short, a social enterprise is an economically viable project, with a social and/or environmental mission, a limited profit entity, with participatory governance.