The 110 students who comprise BYU-Hawaii\u2019s Enactus team can tell you, at minimum, six different ways they\u2019ve helped make the world a better place. And soon, they\u2019ll be presenting their work to the world \u2014 as the 2015 Enactus U.S. National Champion team. <\/p>\n
Enactus is an international nonprofit that brings together students, business leaders and academics to use entrepreneurship to improve people\u2019s lives around the world. <\/p>\n
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BYU-Hawaii Enactus team members and advisors celebrate their victory April 16 in St. Louis. Pictured are: (front, from left) Scott Fisher, Hao Hu, Sery Kouma Kone, Kevan Hendrickson, (back) Leslie G. Harper, Katherine Christensen, Taimi Kennerly and David Waite. PHOTO FROM BYU-HAWAII.<\/p><\/div>\n
The Laie-based team took on six different projects \u2014 two local and four based in Africa \u2014 devoting an average of 200 hours a week to see them come to fruition. <\/p>\n
The first project took them to Kahuku High School, where BYU Hawaii students helped revamp and restructure Kahuku.org, the school\u2019s scholarship-generating apparel and merchandise portal. They also opened a second physical location in a kiosk at Polynesian Cultural Center. <\/p>\n
Outgoing Enactus president and team member Sery Kone notes that they helped turn the struggling e-commerce store around. <\/p>\n
\u201cOur predictions are that the store will be able to generate an annual revenue of about $120,000 this year,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Their second local task was Shine Bright, which sought to help disabled children find their passions \u2014 and then to translate those interests into products of economic value. <\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the girls that we worked with this year \u2026 was able to find her passion in writing, so we helped her write her story in a book, and it is now being published,\u201d Kone shared. <\/p>\n
Shine Bright also promotes education and training to help family members understand what the children are going through. <\/p>\n
The other projects saw BYU-Hawaii students working in Africa\u2019s Ivory Coast. They started a women\u2019s marketplace coop supported by community micro-financing, built a school for 300 former child slaves, reduced malaria infection rates via special fishponds and introduced beekeeping and cheaper fertilizer for struggling cacao farmers. <\/p>\n
The team presented on each of these projects at the Enactus national competition in St. Louis, Mo., taking first place over more than 175 other colleges. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe attribute our success to the Lord, and His support and his guidance,\u201d said Kone. \u201cAnd on top of that, BYU-Hawaii has been participating in this competition for the last 20 years. The success that we have this year was built 20 generations ago.\u201d <\/p>\n
Now, the team prepares for the Enactus World Cup, to be held in Johannesburg, South Africa, in October. They plan on keeping the same projects \u2014 but doubling the results. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe should be able to take and franchise these projects so that we\u2019re not only helping 20 or 200 people, but we can help people all across Africa,\u201d Kone said. <\/p>\n
He also noted that nonprofits have been formed to continue these programs long after the Enactus World Cup wraps up. <\/p>\n
\u201cThese are not projects that we did for the sake of competition only. We are going to continue working on them even after Enactus has ended.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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