In Need of Kuwaiti Social Entrepreneurs

Many are quite not familiar with the term "Social Entrepreneurial". Briefly speaking, social entrepreneurs are people with a broad, deep look into society's social problems. They are ambitious and determined to undertake major social issues, consequently presenting new ideas and innovative solutions for a wide-scale alteration in their communities.

Each social entrepreneur would offer solutions that are "user-friendly, understandable, ethical, and engage widespread support in order to maximize the number of local people that will stand up, seize their idea, and implement with it." In other words, every primary social entrepreneur is a mentor – "a mass recruiter of local changemakers."

One essential, rather simple, step in generating social entrepreneurs is, giving individuals the chance to carry on their higher education while perusing their desired major of study. High school graduates should not be limited to a certain field of study when they decide to join undergraduate schools abroad. I personally do not fully comprehend why the Ministry of Higher Education in Kuwait limits and obligates students a specific major?! The Ministry is basically going along with the motto "take it or leave it!" When the individual is constrained to a specific list of majors he or she does not find excel in, the chances of innovation and creativity go extremely low. In addition, their potentials and talents would most likely go to waste. Instead of focusing on ways to develop skills and make the most of what is being taught in lecture halls, students will devote their time to think of quick easy ways to help them to only pass the class! Do doubts that most you readers out there know at least someone with this kind of experience.

The youth is the future of Kuwait. If they are nurtured and guided to the right path by motivation, they will outshine and reach their highest potentials. Thus, rather than leaving the public's needs to the government or business sectors, young Kuwiati social entrepreneurs are ought to take the responsibility upon themselves in order to designate what is not working, further more, solve the problems by changing the current retarded system, spreading contemporary solutions, and persuading the entire society to take new leaps into development.

Maha Al-Awadhi

University of the Pacific
Stockton, California