By Jessica Grant
Welcome to the blog of Incuheal, a team with the objective of decreasing Infant Mortality Rates across the world, specifically in third world countries, through the distribution of the Incubator bag. Shortly, our team will be writing about the problem of infant mortality, what the major causes are, how we came up with a possible solution, what our product is and how you can help with our distribution efforts.
Welcome to the blog of Incuheal, a team with the objective of decreasing Infant Mortality Rates across the world, specifically in third world countries, through the distribution of the Incubator bag. Shortly, our team will be writing about the problem of infant mortality, what the major causes are, how we came up with a possible solution, what our product is and how you can help with our distribution efforts.
I’ll start off this blog by discussing the moral obligations
of our social enterprise when trading internationally.
Dictionary.com defines ‘moral’ as:
adjective
1.
of, pertaining to, or concerned
with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right
and wrong; ethical: moral attitudes.
noun
9.
the moral teaching or
practical lesson contained in a fable, tale, experience, etc.
In a blog by Michael Josephson, he writes that there are
three sources of business morals:
- Law – an obligation to obey or disobey laws based on one’s own beliefs of right and wrong
- Mutual agreements – the need to do the things we said we would do
- The moral principle – standards beyond laws and agreements that ultimately pull us towards actions that we believe are ‘right’, regardless of consequences.
In bringing our product to international countries, morals
are important for us to consider and the topic raises a lot of questions. Is
this a problem that other countries want to be fixed, or have we assumed that
this is a problem based on our own moral principle? How will we proceed if our
purpose and actions are rejected by the countries we deal with? Will we
continue to try to influence change, go around those who reject us or focus our
efforts elsewhere? What is the trade off between breaking a country’s laws to
fulfil your social enterprise’s goals and facing incrimination in that country?
We’re interested in hearing your thoughts on the topic and
what you think you would do if you were facing a moral dilemma as a social
entrepreneur.
I love that your enterprise is based around helping infants survive. I know that many illnesses in third world countries come later on in a humans life but I believe that bringing an infant in to the world in an environment that can help them survive the first few weeks or whatever is the most important thing. And I believe that your product will help make this possible for new borns in third world countries.
ReplyDeleteAlso I found your discussion based on morals interesting, one can only assume that your target market wants this problem to be fixed, however if this is not the case then will you be redefining your target market? Also the legal issues are a large factor too, I know you can jump online and find a list of the laws in just saw, the USA without any difficulty but I imagine that a third world country (I assume Africa is your main target here) it might be a bit more challenging.
Thanks for your comment Sam. You're right about us changing our target market if we are rejected in third world countries. We will change our focus towards developed nations to provide healthcare where we find that we fit. However whilst this happens we will continue to work on our relations with third world nations to try and resolve the issues that would prevent us from bringing this product to them. Ultimately our goal is to contribute to a decrease in Infant Mortality Rates in third world nations.
ReplyDelete- Jessica