For you to see change, you have to be
in an uncomfortable situation.
If you're comfortable all the time
then change is almost unlikely.
We're in Dominica right now, which
is a country in the Caribbean islands.
We're here to study social entrepreneurship.
It's taking the students to a small economy,
and showing them the challenges that the entrepreneurs face.
And how Inherently in their projects
and in their entrepreneurial activities
there's a social good that's part of that initiative.
Getting the first hand feel of how
young people are willing to take that step now can be inspiring.
To be honest, I was pretty nervous about meeting
with all these different entrepreneurs
because these people are actually doing
business in the real world.
I actually worked with Big G who's just started a burgeoning
hot sauce company.
For that he needs to have farmers
to be able to grow the peppers that he needs.
He has gotten a lot of his friends
actually to grow peppers, because they all know together
that if he succeeds, everyone succeeds.
I never thought about sort of intertwining economic interests
and social interests, but to find these businesses that
make them integral to each other, instead of competing,
was really great.
And it's really, really important to uplifting
the community and creating a stable economy.
It's also important for them to get a sense of the culture.
Being able to understand the way that people interact
in their own society respective to ours,
there's a lot of cultural differences,
and I think it's important to be sensitive of that.
The island is very mountainous, and it's almost
90% rain forest.
It's not really your typical Caribbean island
which has sand beaches and things like that.
They have a lot of waterfalls, hikes.
We went to this part called the Valley of Desolation.
It was really amazing to me to realize how much beauty
that there is in Dominica.
That's very valuable in terms of how important it
is to protect the environment and provide by ourselves
and provide for the generations to come.
It's true that the people are not
wealthy in terms of financial resources,
but from the natural resources and their way of life,
they're very rich.
And that I think was great for the students
to capture that as well.