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Social innovation is playing an important role in tackling a series of hot social problems such as unemployment, poverty, housing, health care, drug and etc. Through these cases, you will better understand how these people or organisations deal with the tough social challenges in innovative ways.
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A tower of dazzling lights is shining on to the streets of Shoreditch, London, raising awareness of the relationship between humans and the environment and exploring if the ground we walk on could generate solar energy.
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Dialogue in the Dark is an innovative and unique program designed by the German social entrepreneur Andreas Heinecke. The idea is very simple. Fee-paying visitors are lead by blind or partially sighted guides through completely darkened rooms. They are confronted with everyday situations, like crossing a street or standing in a park, without seeing anything.
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Caisangzi was set up in 2003 by Liu Lijun, a woman who experienced various roles in her career life but finally determined to devote herself wholeheartedly into the protection, development and promotion of Miao culture, and the improvement of the lives of Miao women.
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Fifteen is one of the most famous social enterprises in the UK, thanks to Channel 4's hit TV show 'Jamie's Kitchen' which was broadcast in 2002. The programme followed celebrity chef Jamie Oliver as he set up a restaurant which would double as a training programme for disadvantaged young people interested in becoming chefs.
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Former British prime minister Tony Blair is recruiting social entrepreneurs to the world of sport arguing it is "unlike anything else on the planet" and a powerful tool for social change.
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