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Yvette Torres-Rahman
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BFP TeamYvette Torres-Rahman is now friends with Peter Rossi, Tieneke van Ekkendonk, Monja Wolf and Uwe Schwarz
Profile Information
- Sector
- I am a social entrepreneur
- Website:
- http://www.mentori.org
- About my work:
- I feel passionately that business can make a major contribution to fighting poverty and I believe the day will come when it will be the norm not the exception for companies to consider the impact of their core business -their people, products and processes -on international development and poverty reduction. May that day be soon!
Work
I was a Marketeer at GlaxoSmithKline for eight years. More recently I co-founded INSPIRIS (www.inspiris.co.uk). I also lead the development of Mentori (www.mentori.org).
Languages
Fluent: English, Spanish, French
Business: Catalan, Italian
Conversational: German
Countries
I have lived and worked in England, Spain, France and Guyana
- Other Topics on my radar:
- Enterprise Development, Women and Business, Fair Trade, Crowdsourcing,
Yvette Torres-Rahman's Blog
Let's welcome the new African free trade zone!
The coming together of these countries should also help them cope better with the adverse effects of the international economic climate.
This agreement between the leaders of the existing African trading blocks, namely the Southern African… Continue
Posted on October 25, 2008 at 12:35
Scaling-up Action to Fight Poverty
When I first started working with Inspiris in the field of business fighting poverty, I did some pro-bono marketing work for a great consumer brand called Heart of Africa. All profits made from the brand are re-invested in business development projects in Africa. The organisation behind it is Traidlinks whose vision is to "diminish poverty in developing countries by… Continue
Posted on October 15, 2008 at 23:30
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I will want to invite you to know about our commonwealth venture project which is aim at encouraging entrepreneurship.
We shall be happy to know how we might partner with your organisation in this our project, in mentor-ship,training, seed capital
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Mandi
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