Back
Case Studies
Yunus Thailand Coordinates Visit Between University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Students and Bangkok-Based Social Businesses
✈️ Yunus Thailand Coordinates Visit Between University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Students and Bangkok-Based Social Businesses🏢
🇹🇭 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) students were welcomed to Thailand, set against the backdrop of bustling Bangkok, where the social business sector is taking off. As part of a program collaboratively run with Kenan Foundation Asia, students explored social business and health, visiting the hashtag#ZeroBahtShop, ARSA, the Population and Community Development Association (PDA), Museum of The Institute of Thai Traditional Medicine, and the Bureau of Reproductive Health, Ministry of Public Health where they were met with enthusiasm and warmth, and were introduced to operational details and contributions to an equitable society.
💻 The students had the opportunity to familiarise themselves with the community background and provided social business consultancy services, identifying key recommendations to further improve social business operations and sustainability.
Some of the recommendations included:
- - B2B subscription-based payment models for telemedicine services for healthcare clinics
- - Mobile clinic business models for low income communities
- - Digitalised community health centres for waste pickers
- - Preventive healthcare measures integrated with local social welfare funds
- financed by the sales of recyclables
- - Herbal medicine focused social businesses to increase community resilience
👏 Bridging stakeholders across sectors to foster an environment of social business in Bangkok and beyond is a key goal Yunus Thailand strives to achieve. We aim to nurture our connections with affiliated organisations to support social businesses, while also inspiring the next generation to become social business entrepreneurs.
Loading more blogs...