![]() Students have an opportunity once again to tackle an issue where social enterprises of any kind can help attain the target. The Hult Prize is the world’s largest student competition for social entrepreneurship and this year’s challenge is centered on “the refugee opportunity”, specifically reawakening human potential, and build sustainable, scalable social enterprises that restore the rights and dignity of 10 million refugees by 2022. president Bill Clinton with McGill’s 2013 winning team (from left to right): Jesse Pearlstein, Shobhita Soor, Zev Thompson, Gabriel Mott and Mohammed Ashour. ![]() It has been three years since they won and the Aspire Food Group is still going strong with their mission of providing a sustainable food source to millions of people around the world. The team saw a spectrum of ups and downs but one year later in September 2013, the same five students from McGill University won the Hult Prize with their unique solution of using insect-derived flour to win a bid to address food security, in the process winning USD $1Million as seed funding to further pursue their idea. They did not know what they would achieve but they had the courage to take up this challenge while braving the rigors of an MBA course. In 2012, five students got together at the third floor of the Bronfman building and decided that they want to tackle the problem of world food scarcity. ![]() Something that you never imagined or fleetingly hoped for but never expected. But there are some dreams that no one dreams and that dream that you don’t dream is reality that surpasses your expectations. Each year a batch of students begin their two years journey of dreaming and a batch leaves the building with the satisfaction of having achieved their dreams and the joy that the last two years bought to their lives. The Samuel Bronfman building is the house of business studies at McGill University.
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