Small project of chocolate's figures as a homeless - based business
Homeless girls, women, street sexual workers join the community business sector for self-sufficiency, sports developement and human solidarity
About You
Contact Information
Title
Mrs.
First name
Diana Valera and Michelle Whang
Last name
Moreno Lee
Your job title
volunteers
Name of your organization
Asociacion Bogota Colombia Gente para la Gente
Organization type
NGO
Annual budget/currency
3000 US DOLLARS
Location
Project Street Address
Calle 12C # 71B – 61
Project City
Bogota
Project Province/State
Cundinamarca
Project Postal/Zip Code
Project Country
Colombia
Your idea
Choose your sport: (check all that apply)
Soccer/Football
If you chose "other" for Sport, please define in 1-2 words below
Soccer and running
What approach does your initiative incorporate?
Capacity Building
Year the initiative began (yyyy)
2007
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Plot your innovation within the discovery framework:
Barrier
Lack of parity in facilities, equipment and funding
Insight
Embed sports with other activities
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Name Your Project
Small project of chocolate's figures as a homeless - based business
Describe Your Idea
Homeless girls, women, street sexual workers join the community business sector for self-sufficiency, sports developement and human solidarity
Innovation
What is your signature innovation, your new idea, in one sentence?
Homeless girls, women, street sexual workers join the community business sector for self-sufficiency, sports developement and human solidarity
How many people does your innovation serve or plan to serve? Exactly who will benefit?
20 girls and women per year including the homeless and street sexual workers. The beneficiaries of this project are the 20 persons and their families. There will be indirect beneficiaries since these persons will become leaders, multipliers and mobilizers in sports, homeless-based small businesses and humanitarian activities to help others like them. In general speaking many homeless persons and street sexual workers are going to have more benefits for example it is going to be positive changes
Do you have any existing partnerships? If so, please list and describe.
With a community business organization, humanitarian entrepreneurs, wholesalers and mentors and potential support from some international
organizations...
In which sector do these partners work? (Check all that apply)
Citizen sector (non profits, NGOs) , Private sector .
How do you implement your innovation and apply it to the challenge/problem you are addressing?
These girls and women will join a community business organization of entrepreneurs and wholesalers who have given encouragement to us for taking this step. Furthermore we have potential mentors within humanitarian groups of business people. Entrepreuners, wholesalers and mentors have supported us with instructors, facilities, pure chocolate, molds etc. since 2007 for instruction of the beneficiaries in production of chocolate's figures and are going to help us to network for production and different channels of sales according to customer preferences and resources.
Impact
Provide one sentence describing your impact/intended impact
Rescue, rehabilitation, income generation, sports, human solidarity for 20 persons, their families through a homeless - based business project to...
What does impact/success look like? Please list any tangible measures of the impact of your innovation
We are just try to start this phase. However we can get an integral impact through rescue, rehabilitation, sports, humanitarian activities, self sufficiency and complementary activities with the media, comunities and organizations...will become leaders, multipliers and mobilizers in sports, homeless-based small businesses and human solidarity with others like them..
Is there a chance that your project could change policy (within an institution or government)?
It will depend on political will....
Aside from financial sustainability, how do you plan to grow the initiative or expand your intended impact?
We think that we are going to have positive impact on many audiences to get support because we are addressing and recognizing that being out of appropriate support and of work is often the result of factors beyond the control of our most vulnerable and disadvantaged girls and women. Low self-esteem, a mental or physical disability or simply being in need of bus fare to get to a public hospital can all have a tremendous effect on their lives and future. We are going to use sports to raise awae
This Entry is about (Issues)
Sustainability
How is your initiative financed (or how do you expect your initiative will be financed)?
We need a seed capital. We will have support of a community business organization, entrepreneurs, wholesalers and mentors for instruction, production and commercialization, sports and humanitarian events.
Financing source
Annual budget
We are in the planning phase...
Annual revenue generated
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Number of staff (full-time, part-time, volunteers)
24 parttime volunteers working to help these persons...
What are the main barriers to financing your initiative, and how do you plan to address these barriers?
We are just starting the promotion ....
What are the major challenges with regards to partnerships?
We receive any partnership. - The project is easy and with high feasibility because,
* These Girls and women are going to receive constact support from our organization and other institutions so that they will have autonomy and self suffiiciency.
* Supplies for instruction and production are cheap.
* This project include possibilites of instruction and production, instruction courses, sports are going to be carried in social, public and private facilities, including possibilities of recei
The Story
What stage is your project?
Idea phase , Ongoing project .
What was the motivation or defining moment that led to create this innovation? Tell us the story.
Our friends surviving on the streets
Please tell us about the social innovator behind this initiative
we work in team our motivation has been those girls and women
(Optional) To be eligible for an additional prize, please select age range
27 or older
 | 169 weeks agoMichelle Whang Moreno Lee said: Thank you for your comments… We think that that sports is a POSITIVE tool for social change. Integration and affection through ... about this Competition Entry. - read more > |
| 170 weeks agoRenata Affonso said: Hello Colombia Team, Congratulations for brainstorming on a way to make your project economically sustainable. Social ... about this Competition Entry. - read more > |
| 172 weeks agoMichelle Whang Moreno Lee said: Thank you for your comment. Additional comments about this project. - The project is easy and with high feasibility because, * ... about this Competition Entry. - read more > |
| 173 weeks agoRahul (Robin) Brahmbhatt said: Hello, Interesting idea! I am curious to see how you decided on chocolate as a partner to sports for this program. How do you plan ... about this Competition Entry. - read more > |
| 173 weeks agoMichelle Whang Moreno Lee submitted this idea. |
