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A new breed of young social entrepreneurs is emerging that is keen to change the way business is conducted. Many of these under-35 entrepreneurs are looking at ways to address challenges such as global poverty and climate change through commercial enterprise. Their goal is to make effective use of businesses and business processes to make a meaningful social or environmental impact. Leila Janah, a 29-year old tech entrepreneur who founded Samasource, a company that outsources computer related work to women and youth in the weakest economic regions of the world, says, "There is a growing group in Silicon Valley that believes that social business and technology can change the world." Impact investors are flooded with opportunities in this area.

One Indian social entrepreneur has given women from low income groups in India dignity, by making it possible for them to afford to buy sanitary towels and provide them with an income at the same time.Arunachalam Muruganantham is the person who changed things. From a poor background in the South of India, he created the world's first low-cost machine to produce sanitary towels. According to a report by market research group AC Nielsen, "Sanitary Protection: Every Woman's Health Right", 88% of women in India are driven to use ashes, newspapers, sand husks and dried leaves during their periods. As a result of these unhygienic practices, more than 70% of women suffer from reproductive tract infections, increasing the risk of contracting associated cancers.

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I sincerely hope as our brilliant minds are innovating solutions and little tricks and add-ons and improvements, that we do repeat history by NOT thinking it through exhaustively first!