Article T54G Can social enterprise help fix the Greek crisis?

Can social enterprise help fix the Greek crisis?

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Morgan Meaker in Athens
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Despite youth unemployment at 53%, Greece's young entrepreneurs face state obstacles and hostility

Myrto Papadogeorgou and her business partner Nikos Konstantinou chose not to join the exodus of 200,000 people from Greece over the past five years. Instead they've stayed, hoping to help drag their country out of crisis. For them, and many other young Greeks, starting a social enterprise has become a way to capitalise on their frustrations in the face of 52% youth unemployment.

But Papadogeorgou and Konstantinou have hit a dead end. After four years unsuccessfully applying for funding from organisations at home and abroad for City of Errors, an interactive platform they've developed that encourages users to fix their city's problems, the defeated pair have stopped trying. Now they talk about leaving Greece.

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