It’s amazing how much good a dedicated playing area for children can be. If you think of your childhood, that special playground or spot in the woods allowed your imagination to run wild. It gave you an opportunity to explore and expel energy. If your home life wasn’t so good, playing allowed you enjoy yourself, smile, laugh…play.

But kids all around this world don’t always have that dedicated space. Drew Chafetz, 25, a graduate from the University of Colorado, is making it his mission to ensure children can play, even in impoverished lands. He is utlilzing a business platform that’s called “social entrepeneurship” that is gaining a vast amount of momentum. It allows people like Chafetz to make big things happen from their computer. His project is called love.fútbol which builds low-maintenance fields in Guatemalan communities.

So what is social entrepreneurship?

It’s a movement in which people launch nonprofit or business ventures to address systemic problems in impoverished areas, emerged nearly three decades ago and is growing in appeal among young adults who want to help vulnerable people. Rather than working their way up at a government agency or large nonprofit, Chafetz and others in their 20s or early 30s are leveraging business partnerships, grants and donations for their own initiatives to do good in the world. There is even a magazine devoted to social causes, called Good, launched in 2006 by a 26-year-old and available at stores such as Whole Foods.

In a nutshell, it’s taking charity into your own hands as opposed to traditional means of contributing. It’s a rewarding feeling to know that charity work is only a keystroke away!