| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 國際經營管理英語碩士學位學程(IMBA) === 103 === Right at this moment, there are more than a hundred million kids under the age of six living in urban slums worldwide that are not receiving quality education.
Research has shown that early childhood education (E.C.E.) from zero to six years is the critical and unmet need of this century. NGOs, governments and the private sector efforts have not been enough to solve this challenge. Social enterprises may be an effective option to address this issue.
Four students in the International Master of Business Administration program of National Chengchi University decided to tackle this issue and create a social enterprise called IMPCT. Social enterprises are nonprofit or for-profit business ventures that strive to achieve a quantifiable double bottom line of financial and social returns. These ventures are financially self-sufficient.
IMPCT is built on the idea that the only viable solution to the problem of urban slum early childhood education is having safe and nurturing facilities for children to flourish in. This is currently how the developed world handles early childhood education. More privileged families can take their newborns and babies to professional facilities where they get cognitive development and proper brain stimulations. IMPCT plans to make this privilege accessible to everyone in urban slums. Real ECE facilities will be built within the community for the community by the community. The kids will receive the proper quality education and nutrition in a safe and nurturing environment.
IMPCT plans to begin the operations in August 2015 by building the first pilot school in the slums of San Salvador, El Salvador. The ultimate goal is to expand to the Central American countries, Mexico and South America reaching millions of children in the next decade.
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