<p>Brittany Chambers, right, shared a meal inside Sibanye, a restaurant she worked with whole on co-op with a social enterprise incubator in South Africa.</p><p>In South Africa, where much of the country is plagued by racism and poverty, a new generation of entrepreneurs is looking at social business as a model to reshape the region. And they're being helped by people like Northeastern students Brittany Chambers and Emily Chiappinelli, whose co-op with the Heart Social Enterprise Accelerator gave them the opportunity to help businesses develop sustainable initiatives and measure their impact.</p><p>Chambers, a fifth-year business major, spent six months working to help Sibanye Township Restaurant develop a sustainable plan for its future, which, she said, was "founded on the principle that a shared meal can bring people together."</p><p>Though the restaurant has experienced growing pains typical of a business in flux, Chambers' work there is recognized by Heart as nothing but successful. The restaurant has already created a nonprofit wing and plans to renovate and expand, a radical transformation that Heart points to in pitches to attract other area entrepreneurs to its accelerator program.</p><p><a href="http://www.northeastern.edu/news/2013/02/socialentrepreneurs/">Keep reading...</a></p>