Efforts to boost social entreprise bears fruit

Better businesses: Models flanking (standing from left) Eats, Shoots, Roots co-founder Low Shao Lyn, Dallas, and Anderson. In front of them are (from left) Rashvin Pal Singh, EYE Project Management co-founder Christopher Tock and Recover Initiative managing director Faiz Arshad.

Scores of people turned up at the Publika shopping centre in Sri Hartamas earlier this month to learn more about what social enterprises can do.

The Arthur Guinness Project (AGP), in collaboration with British Council “Entrepreneurs for Good” Wave 1 programme, saw the first six Malaysian social entrepreneurs receive training and funds.