Student Presentation for Haiti
16.02.2011
Students of UCC’s final year Entrepreneurship and Business Start-up module recently put their studies to use for the benefit of the people of Haiti and Africa. Twenty-four business venture groups (comprising 3-5 students) were given an investment of €5 per group by their lecturer, Dr Lawrence Dooley, and set a challenge to grow their investment within seven days. The students’ collective commercial endeavours transformed the initial €120 investment into €6,700, an average of just under €280 per group. The sum of €4,000 was donated to UNICEF to support their work in Haiti.

Professor Sebastian Green, Head of the Department of Management and Marketing at UCC, expressed his delight with the initiative by Lawrence and his students “We should all acknowledge the great credit due to these students, who used their entrepreneurial skills and knowledge, outside of class time, not for their own ends but for those in need. Well done to Lawrence for being inventive in his teaching and using his own resources, and to the students for the hard work involved.”

Picture: Students and staff at the Department of Management and Marketing UCC presenting a cheque for €4,000 to UNICEF Ambassador Donnacha O'Callaghan, in aid of Haiti.

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