Name of the Social Innovation: Textbooks for
Change
Founder/Initiator/Leader/Developer of the
Innovation: Chris Janssen
For more information: http://textbooksforchange.ca
In
2013, Chris Janssen traveled to East Africa to teach at the University of
Finance and Banking in Kigali, Rwanda. Upon his arrival, Janssen noticed a
deficit in the educational material that was available to these institutions,
as large groups of students were often sharing a single photocopied
textbook. Knowing that there were
thousands of used textbooks back in Canada that remained unused, Janssen saw an
opportunity to collect these textbooks and sustainably redistribute them to
students in need. This became the driving force that helped Chris Janssen and
business partner Tom Hartford cultivate Textbooks for Change into the
sustainable social venture it is today.
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