Social Inclusion and Social Entrepreneurship Case of Mirakle Courier, Mumbai

Kalpeshkumar L Gupta & Sujo Thomas

Abstract :

Whenever we see disabled people, we say ‘poor guy’, some of us try to help him/her out for the time being, but we can see these people are socially excluded for one and another reason. Dr. Lynn Todmann[1] suggests that “Social exclusion refers to the process in which individuals and entire community are systematically denied rights, opportunities and resources that are normally available to other members of society and which is key to social integration. Problem of Social exclusion is tied to lack of opportunities as disabled people are more subject to exclusion than others” Most of the time they are not considered to be a part of the mainstream of the society. Many time we assume that disabled people will live their life wandering aimlessly without contributing anything to the society, they depend on abled people to help them every time. Disabled people are also a part of the society, they are not mere laggards created by the Almighty God. They need to be socially included by some positive steps.

Social entrepreneurship is the recognition of a social problem and the uses of entrepreneurial principles to organize create and manage a social venture to achieve a desired social change.

Present paper will discuss Social Inclusion, Social Entrepreneurship and relationship between these two. It will focus that how social entrepreneurship can bring the change in society. I have taken Mumbai based Mirakle Courier as a part of case study. It is creating job opportunities in its courier by employing Deaf and Dumb people and helping them to be self-reliant.

 

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