Question

Osama Bin Noor is the co-founder of Youth Opportunities and he is one of good social entrepreneur. Youth Opportunities is an award-winning global platform aimed at empowering youth by connecting local youth to their global counterparts while bringing the opportunity providers closer to the seekers. Noor got awarded as the 2016 Queen’s Young Leaders for his social entrepreneur initiative. He has received the award from Her Majesty, the Queen at the Buckingham Place. Noor got enlisted as the Forbes 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneur in Asia. As a social entrepreneur, Noor is promoting volunteerism in Bangladesh for the last 8 years with many national and international organizations.

1- Discuss what are the mission, benefit and the mechanism of their business venture  (200 words).

2 - What are the challenge, risk or obstacles he faced ? (150 words)

Answer 1

1.Mission, Benefit and the Mechanism of Youth Opportunities

Youth Opportunities is an important international platform for youth to explore opportunities worldwide. It helps millions of youth in getting easy access to useful educational resources for free of cost. It encourages youngsters to continue self-development through various means. Youth Opportunities in fact working as a bridge between youngsters who are seeking opportunities and institutions who are providing opportunities through sharing of information. This organization views ‘Access to Information’ as a basic human right and they realize that there is a deficiency of useful information despite the advancement in the field of technology. They work in various areas of self-development such as scholarships, internships, exchange programs, fellowships, workshops, conferences, competitions, awards, grants, education, training, employment, and global exposure regardless of national boundaries.

The major advantage of Youth Opportunities is that it helps global youth in their professional and personal development. They do it by providing information regarding global opportunities without any fee or charges. They also help youth in getting connected with proven leaders at local and global levels. Youth Opportunities offers direct contacts between opportunity givers and seekers. It also functions as a platform for the youth to get needed support and advice from experts of international stature. It also helps youngsters to share their achievements with global youth.

Youth Opportunities is materializing its mission by partnering with various governmental institutions and international organizations. Youth Opportunities helps institutions to promote their opportunities to reach the targetted audience through its members.

2.Challenge, risk or obstacles faced by Osama Bin Noor

Osama Bin Noor is the co-founder of Youth Opportunities and he is an ideal example of social entrepreneurship in modern times. He started the global platform "Youth Opportunities" for youth to explore worldwide opportunities. Presently his concern is helping millions of youth to get the benefits of various scholarships, internships, exchange programs, fellowships, workshops, conferences, competitions, awards, grants, education, training, employment, and global exposure, etc. But while starting his platform he faced a lot of challenges. He and his team had to search extensively to collect information regarding various opportunities available to youth. Also, it was very difficult for him to convince others about the relevance of skill development among youngsters. The idea of starting an exclusive platform for global opportunities was difficult for many people to digest, they doubted about its sustainability. He also faced a lot of financial problems while starting the Youth Opportunities domain and server, he materialized it with the help of a loan.

fTill today, the revenue generated is being used to pay for the loan money and the entire team works voluntarily without any form of payment;