The good collaboration between social entrepreneurship and rural areas – innovative approaches for community development and implementation

Trakia University, Department of Industrial business and entrepreneurship, Faculty of Economics, 6015 Student Campus, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria

^* Corresponding author: elena.gospodinova339@gmail.com

Abstract

In the current study on the topic “The good collaboration between social entrepreneurship and rural areas - innovative approaches for community development and implementation”, we will follow the path of social organizations that have successfully introduced people from socially vulnerable groups into agronomy and the production of agricultural products, training them how to be farmers and increasing competitiveness and entrepreneurial spirit among them. The isolation of the so-called “marginalized groups” of society is not in the service of the Bulgarian economy, and the fertility of our lands, which we are proud of in front of the whole world, has today turned into a wasteland. We will study the development opportunities and the results achieved by the organizations, introducing the Roma population, people with mental retardation or motor deficits in the production of agricultural products, improving their knowledge, creating good development opportunities in the depopulated agricultural areas. Projects such as the social enterprise “Bee” in the village of Hayredin, Vratsa region, which have successfully involved unemployed persons from minority groups in the production of honey and bee products, teaching them how to be beekeepers and providing them with beehives, are among the examples of successful social an entrepreneurial project that improved the quality of life of people from vulnerable groups in depopulated regions. Good examples are among us, and they deserve their special attention.