Utari's Notes

It was a beautiful sunny day; I went to an English Speaking Club at The English House Medan to join a discussion about social entrepreneur. This time the speaker was Mr.Panut Hadisiwoyo, the founder of Orangutan Information Center (OIC), a non-profit organisation (NGO) which works on saving orangutan in Indonesia. Actually, I have ever met him before at Siti Hajar School; at that time our school also joined the activities provided by OIC; the students and teachers-including me-went together to observe and learn about forest restoration in the middle of Besitang forest. Yet, he also remembered about me and we have a little discussion before the talk began. picture source:   Start-Up Hyderabad The talk is about social entrepreneur, a topic that I never knew before, which is defined as someone who offers new innovation and ideas for the benefit of many people. Mr. Panut said that his idea to become social entrepreneur came up when he went to Canada where he could see that the coun

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