A Dream of a Social Entrepreneur

I have a stargaze that in the near future, Eco brio Cafe forget become the bridge of knowledge for tidy sum in Phu coarse and enhance society Ecotourism for the Protection of Mangrove so that tourists and foreigners will know and get by the community initiatives to cherish the putting green environment here, and then have a chance to experience life with topical anaesthetic anaesthetic people in our island. guile on the coastal island of Cat Hai, Hai Phong city, Phu wide pass alongs community is consisted of 70% people earning their lives by small-scale aquaculture and rudimentary fishing their lives think much on the nature and they often suffer from crop tribulation during the flooding season. Phu Long does not have conditions for produce growth, thus the locals life totally depends on supply of produce from the outside. Phu Long is subsumeed with Hai Phong City via Dinh Vu ferry.It takes up to 3-4 hours to transport passengers and goods oer that less-than-30km d istance. The difficulties in transportation make the existing cost in Phu Long high. In the tough economic time, with smooth prices of seafood like the recent years, the lives of people have become tougher and riskier. Getting over the obstacles, the people here are seeking for the new livelihoods, specifically with the Community Ecotourism having flourished.People doing this work just have the simple wish of reservation more income for the family, feeding and educating their children, and at the same time caring and preserving the nature. This plunder be done by tours experiencing and plating mangroves to better off the biodiversity. Mangroves hi allegory for one-third of the Phu Long area. They are not only the green walls protect peoples life and property from natural disasters, but the green lung providing fresh air for the city.Contributing to the effort of protecting humane value and the environment, Centre for Marinelife Conservation and Community Development (MCD) in co ordination with Vietnet discipline engineering and Communication ticker (Vietnet) and the communitys representatives led by a social entrepreneur in Phu Long mobilize investment from personal capital and social capital to establish and open the Tourist Information Center and Environment Education Ecolife Cafe in Phu Long, Cat Ba in the summer 2012.Ecolife Cafe Phu Long is primitive, simple, environment-friendly and close to the people in the commune, which is located on the area of more than 200m2 on the familys priming of the social entrepreneur Vu Hong Hung. He is the Head of the Cooperation and Operation Board of Phu Longs Community Ecotourism. Initially, Ecolife Cafe has had a bookcase for community with more than 50 books on culture, environment, law, engineering, which partly met the reading demand of the people.Hung has also finished place a wireless Internet connection here. Hung shares that his wish now is to despatch Phu Long Ecolife Cafe a number of used computers wh ich can connect to the Network that he has set up. Every day, people in the commune can drop by and connect to the internet to read the news and search information about the new farming techniques which are economically efficient and environment-friendly to preserve the green space here.In addition, households participating in his Community Ecotourism Board will have internet access to put in the land to the domestic and foreign tourists. Talking about the cost, Hung expressed his willingness to have a bun in the oven for utilities and take time to ask for experts coming to the commune to teach IT for local people, especially the young. Since then, Phu Long can reach millions of people loving the sea, people in the coastal areas and the mangrove and they will come to this land.Summer 2013 is coming, this story intends to reach people loving sea nature and understand the difficulties of local people, with the hope to seek for the accompany with Social Entrepreneur Vu Hong Hung to realize the dream of Education Center, Phu Long Ecolife Cafe. Let wish that there will be more and more Ecolife Cafe like this presenting in every coastal areas throughout the country , with the spirit of social entrepreneur to enrich the knowledge, livelihoods and protect the environment for the future generations.Individual/organization willing to share with Phu Long Ecolife Cafe, please contact Entrepreneur VU HONG HUNG Manager of Phu Long Ecolife Cafe Tel (084)976 433 656 name Phu Long commune, Cat Hai district, Hai Phong city Ms. Pham Tu Uyen Vietnet Information Technology and Communication Center (Vietnet-ICT) Tel (084)914 717 695 Email emailprotected org Address Room 3104, Building 34T, Hoang Dao Thuy street, Cau Giay district, Hanoi