Can you please share a bit about your background and what led to your passion in social business and living in Kathmandu?

We have many concerns where artisans do not constantly send you samples and designs, but use them for other customers. It’s a process where we remain in the red. Social entrepreneurship is a young concept in Nepal.

However, in spite of all these obstacles, we have a remarkable, young Nepalese generation that are passionate to make a difference. Youths with ingenious ideas that are prepared to combat preconceptions and standards, and social entrepreneurship may be a young concept to Nepal, but the motion is growing day by day.

Sometimes, many excellent efforts are showing up that I can’t even follow them myself. Nepal holds a lot of challenges also in the supply chain, so this was fairly tough for little SMEs and social business. For instance, when you are a start-up, you discover yourself often in supply chains where you’re between business cartels, representatives and intermediaries. There are many terrific challenges, however regardless of the obstacles, many terrific innovative ideas and ambitious young Nepalese.It’s so exciting,

that’s what keeps me going every day. I get up thrilled every day! That’s excellent. It makes it a little bit simpler to do the work you do when you’re led by that enthusiasm? I think rather we have to concentrate on regional economies(and)comprehending our natural resources

, since Nepal has a lot to use. We have to comprehend our human resources, because to be honest, a great deal of migrant employees that leave are extremely competent people that we can use in Nepal itself. I think that’s a great task for social entrepreneurship. Based on the requirements of the regional and worldwide market, I actually think that the very first thing that enters your mind is agriculture. We rely far excessive on imports, and we have terrific soil in Nepal. You can grow anything. This is something that is a great chance, however personally I’m really passionate about the supply chain. I think the supply chain holds a great deal of chances, like for example growing and processing raw products in Nepal itself. Nepal has terrific cardamom, hemp and nettle that we can actually process and after that make into yarn and sustainable fabrics. This can all be done likewise beyond Kathmandu, in areas where we have a great deal of returning migrants.I believe this is something that uses fantastic capacity. I do actually think in dreaming huge, and I would enjoy to see Nepal as a prominent nation in the supply of sustainable fabrics and yarn. I actually think that is practical.

These are two of the things that really come to my mind, however there are some others. I believe there are still opportunities in tourism. I likewise do believe coffee is one of the terrific opportunities for social entrepreneurs. The entire digital world is of

course among those. Definitely. I make certain you’ll unload a bit more of this throughout this year’s Social Enterprise World Online Forum, which is the very first year that the online forum is going to be fully online, and you’re a speaker there. With over 4,000 business owners that are expected to attend

, what are you most looking forward to about? I think it’s a great opportunity. As much as I love to satisfy physically, I think it’s terrific to have a digital platform. What I am most delighted by is to discover upcoming social business internationally, from like-minded people. As I mentioned to you before, I listened to your podcast withRashvin yesterday [from Malaysia], and I just felt so connected to his story. I think that is something amazing about the occasion, that we get in touch with like minded people. I’m incredibly thrilled about that this year.Absolutely. It’s going to be a terrific place to satisfy a bunch of social

business owners with a whole stack of inspiring jobs and initiatives. Speaking of which Anouk, I’m really keen to find out about a few of those social business or tasks that you have actually discovered recently, which you believe are producing some excellent positive social change?I wish to in fact do a shout out to among the social enterprises in Nepal that I

‘m truly impressed by, and they have been doing excellent work during the entire COVID-19 scenario as well, and it’s called Kokroma. Kokroma is a fairly young social business that started I may say one and a half years ago.