| Lebanon
Field of actions as a social entrepreneur
Environment/Demographics and Health
Human Security and Peace/Governance and Participation
Development, Education and Communication
Your personal work and expectations for the future
Helena Nassif serves as the Director of the YMCA of Lebanon's
Integrated Rural Development Project (IRDP) where she organizes
and educates women and youth in rural areas about environmental
protection and primary health care. For the next three years,
Helena will empower rural citizens, enabling them to take health
care into their own hands. For the environmental management component,
Helena will coordinate with environmental engineers, scientists,
educators, scientific research institutions and working teams.
The effort will be the first in Lebanon to deal with the environment
on such a comprehensive level with respect to coordination and
planning. Helena's passion and commitment to such innovative programs
will blaze a trail for future programs of such intensity and depth.
During her university years, Helena was a health care educator
as well as a member of Greenline, an environmental NGO. She also
served as the founding member and Vice President of the AUB (American
University of Beirut) Women's Rights Club.
Helena possesses the ability to turn vision into action and relishes
sharing her experiences and learning from others. She has helped
create leverage for sustainable communities with other youth leaders
at two international conferences.
Your personal definition of Social Entrepreneur
In a world driven by economic interests, the social entrepreneurs
are those men and women whose cause is beyond the material advantage,
for they identify themselves with the people, and they are committed
to making life a better one. They are initiators in nature, have
a courageous spirit, who dare to confront the unsatisfactory reality
with a new vision, with the will of change. |
