Source: Prabir Das

The concept of social business was first established back in 2008 by the Nobel peace laureate Dr Muhammed Yunus. The theory was to address social issues by combining business know-how with the desire to improve the quality of life. Since then people all over the world, especially the youth, are implanting this ideology to improve social structures.
Social Business Youth Network (SBYN) is the first youth based organisation that tries to bring the social business creed to young people all over the world, helping them with all kinds of resources they can provide. If one’s young and has the desire to set up a social business, SBYN are the people to go to!
SBYN first started back in 2013, though the idea first came up when the two founders of the organisation, Shazeeb M Khairul Islam and Shah MD Touifiqul Islam Faysal, attended a conference about social business, back in 2012. “We were so inspired by Dr Muhammed Yunus’s speech about the idea of social business that we started studying about the concept and we realized that this is one of those few ideas that can really change the world,” says Faysal.  After they shared their idea with a couple of their friends, SBYN officially kicked off their journey by organising a work shop for university going students. “The main goal was to familiarise the young people with the social business concept. We think this is the best way to give back to the society and,” says A K M Shahidul Islam, Chief Coordinator at SBYN.
In their journey so far, they have provided the youth with consultancy, workshops, and competitions about social business. “One of our most popular competitions is ‘Social Business Champ’ in which university going students, from the country and abroad, participates with their social business ideas and the winner gets to use their idea to start up their own social business. So far we have gotten more responses than we thought. We now have more than 100 members from more then twenty universities, from around five countries, working with us, trying to make the social change we all dream of,” says Asif Ebna Aziz, executive at SBYN.
On July 2, SBYN is organising a ‘Social Business Youth Summit’ in Dhaka which is going to be the first of its kind. University going students and young professionals from all over the world have applied to join this summit. The summits key note speaker will be none other than the Father of Social Business, Dr Muhammed Yunus.