Social Impact Professionals, Social Entrepreneur in Portugal – Social Steps #04

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Carolina Almeida Cruz is the Portuguese Tech Award Winner 2021 in the category Sustainability & Climate Change Activist. Her most recent social initiative, C-MORE, is aimed to support international organizations, companies, and NGOs in achieving their goals in creating sustainable impact from their activities.

Carolina already worked with social initiatives in India, co-founded Sapana, an NGO in Portugal, and has won prestigious international awards. One of her main inspirations to follow social entrepreneurship is sitting, listen and share experiences with others.

This episode is an interesting conversation to debate our substantial capacity to change the society for better and why social entrepreneurship matters.

Host:

• Luiz Guilherme Natalio de Mello

Guest:

• Carolina Almeida Cruz, co-founder of Sapana and entrepreneur at C-MORE. Recognized as Young Challenger by Muhammad Yunus Foundation. Portuguese Tech Award Winner 2021

Carolina’s recommendations:

• Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell;
• In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom by Park Yeon-mi;
• Hadji Murat by Liev Tolstói;
• A World of Three Zeros by Muhammad Yunus;
• Leaving Microsoft to Change the World by John Wood.

Movie and TEDx mentioned by Luiz:

• In Time by Andrew Niccol;
• We = Me by Carolina Cruz.

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