Romain Sion

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  • Hubert, The Mission Driven Man Who Recycles Bicycle Tires With Disabled Persons

    Hubert, The Mission Driven Man Who Recycles Bicycle Tires With Disabled Persons

    👋Two years ago, Hubert identified🎯 a major pain point. In France🇨🇵, more than 400,000 disabled♿ people were looking for a job and 10M old bicycle 🚲tires were burned every year. Can we combine social & environmental impact in a single company? YES! In 2017, La Vie Est Belt was born as a socially and environmentally friendly brand producing made-in-France fashion accessories.

    Hubert is an engineer with a passion for product development. He started his career at Decathlon as a textile product engineer in France 🇨🇵and China🇨🇳. He loved♥️ the adventure, but he noticed that he was working in the 2nd most polluting industry in the world🌍. To finish his studies👩‍🎓, he spent a few months in Bogotá, where he discovered another face of the country. Every Wednesday, he organized activities 🏃‍♂️for young disadvantaged children in the middle of a slum.

    When he came back to France with the desire to launch a business🚀, he knew one thing: the mission of his company could not only be money💰. It would have to be aligned with his values and his quest for purpose. To identify the products he would focus on, he did his research, which led him to two discoveries🔭: more than 320 tons of tires⚙️ were burned every year, and thousands of motivated disabled people were struggling to find a job. That was the beginning of La Vie Est Belt!

    Hubert spent the first 5 months of the adventure in his garage trying to design✍️ the first prototypes with a shoemaker 👞as his mentor. Belts were a good choice for a first product. The first 2 objectives were: developing a belt combining functionality, style & price, and selling 100 belts to customers 👨to validate their interest. He partnered with 3 concept stores and sold out everything in 3 days.

    Now, Hubert employs 🚀6 people, 50% of whom are disabled. They all share the same passion and vision, and wear the same belt. 🙂So far, they have produced thousands of products and generated hundreds of thousands of euros in revenue💰. Next year, Hubert plans to double revenue and grow the team! Combining impact and business is possible! At La Vie Est Belt, one motto: all actors of a better world! 🌟

    🌟 🌟 🌟 At Our Own Pace And Scale, Everyone Can Aspire To Change The World 🌟 🌟 🌟

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  • Friends International Is Convinced About The Benefits Of Tech and Aims At Being Fully Digitalized

    Friends International Is Convinced About The Benefits Of Tech and Aims At Being Fully Digitalized

    👋After completing our mission 🚀at Friends International, which was to support 🤝the identification and implementation of a recruitment platform to ensure the matching 🔥/ tracking🔎 of hundreds of beneficiaries👦👧, we shared our report📄. We recommended the implementation of two integrated solutions🖥️: Oscar and Salesforce. What we really appreciated was their genuine desire to digitalize all their programs. We had interesting conversations about the implementation of these solutions, team training, the recruitment of their future IT lead / CTO💻, cost 👛optimization…

    In general, we have noticed that many NGOs see digitalization as a powerful 💪way to create a sustainable 🚀competitive advantage (centralized data💿 collection, automated reports📄, real-time information ℹ️…). At the same time, the range of available solutions is growing📈. Companies like Salesforce have created specific packages for NGOs, startups are developing dedicated SaaS solutions, and some NGOs have partnered 🤲 to share the costs of developing a 🌠common tech solution…

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  • Cyrielle Hariel Impact Journalist and World Explorer – “Change Our Mind With Positive People”

    Cyrielle Hariel Impact Journalist and World Explorer – “Change Our Mind With Positive People”

    👋Are you fed up with gloomy 😒headlines from traditional media🗞️? If so, follow🌠 Cyrielle Hariel’s journey🤩. She is an enthusiastic 🔥& positive🌠 journalist🎙️ travelling 🧳the world 🌍with a clear objective: to showcase the positive impact🌠🚀 of citizens👨🧑, individuals and entrepreneurs. Since 2014, she has travelled 100,000 km and interviewed🎤 400+ change-makers, from the Dalai Lama, Muhammad Yunus and Robert Redford to Jane Goodall.

    Her limitless motivation ⛰️started with a song🎶: Man in the Mirror by Michael Jackson👨‍🎤. The line🌠🌠 “If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, and then make a change”🌠🌠 was the trigger😀. In 2014, she decided to quit her job at C8📺 for a humanitarian project 💁in Bangladesh🇧🇩, where a heart defect♥️ was detected. After emergency 🏥surgery, her desire to create positive impact🚀 through her work was confirmed.💪 Her commitment became a lifestyle!

    Now a committed journalist, Cyrielle travels the world to promote these “change-makers”🌈 and to encourage us to engage with solutions to the humanitarian👫 and ecological 🌳crises we are going through. With her lion’s mane 🦁& big smile😄, she never turns down ambitious & impactful challenges⛰️. From travelling🧳✈️ deep into the Amazon jungle to engaging with powerful decision-makers at COP21, she goes for it!

    Her message 📨of peace☮️, solidarity ✊and humanity♥️ is clear. She wants everyone to understand that all of us can become change-makers 💪😄because every action in our lives can make a difference. We have the power🚀 to live in a positive society, but it is our responsibility🌠. #MakeABetterWorld

    🌠🌠🌠At our own pace and scale, everyone can aspire to change the world!🌠🌠🌠

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  • Celestine Convinces Pregnant Mothers To Give Birth In Healthy Environments

    Celestine Convinces Pregnant Mothers To Give Birth In Healthy Environments

    👋How would you react, as a pregnant 🤰woman, if hospitals ⛑️turned you away when your baby 👶was about to arrive? It seems so far from what we experience in countries such as France 🇨🇵, where I am based. Once again, we are so lucky🤞. When I was in Kenya🇰🇪, I witnessed several situations where pregnant women had been turned away by up to 4 public hospitals🏥 before reaching the mission-driven Tabitha Clinic.

    Maternal 🤱and child 🧒👧mortality are still major issues 💥in Kibera, the largest urban slum in Africa, located in the south of Nairobi, Kenya🇰🇪. Carolina for Kibera, an impactful🌠 NGO fighting🔥 to alleviate poverty in Kibera, created the Tabitha Clinic🏥⚕️. It provides quality, affordable 💰and accessible maternal and child health services. Every year, it supports thousands of mothers 🤱and children and gives hope to a community 🤩that has almost no access to public health services.

    We had the chance to meet Celestine and her husband 👫on their way to a new ultrasound at the Tabitha Clinic. Celestine was expecting her 4th child 👶and she was worried😟. A few weeks earlier, she had been bleeding 🆎and could have lost her baby. At the Tabitha Clinic, she received proper care💉 from mission-driven 🚀doctors at a subsidized price 💰she could afford.

    Celestine mentioned three main challenges⛰️ for pregnant women in Kibera: district hospitals are too expensive💰, it is complicated to reach the hospital by public transportation🚊 when the baby is coming, and security 💥is an issue, especially late at night🌌. This explains why many women still give birth at home, in dangerous⚠️ and extremely poor sanitary conditions. Celestine has now decided to join the Carolina for Kibera🌠 staff to share her experience and convince pregnant women 🤰to be followed at the Tabitha Clinic.

    🌠🌠🌠At our own pace and scale, everyone can aspire to change the world!🌠🌠🌠

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  • From Fashion with Tom Ford and Yves Saint Laurent To A Social Business Supporting 100 Women in Turkey

    From Fashion with Tom Ford and Yves Saint Laurent To A Social Business Supporting 100 Women in Turkey

    👋Have you ever been in a situation where you could not just stand by and do nothing?🤷 15 years ago, Izabela Szeliga started a promising 🚀career at Yves Saint Laurent👚, dealing with world-famous🌠 fashion designers such as Tom Ford and Yves Saint Laurent himself. However, after falling in love♥️ with a Turk🇹🇷, she decided to quit everything and start a new life 👍in Istanbul.

    After getting married👰, she had a high-risk pregnancy🚨. Without knowing if the baby would survive😟, she had to lie down🛌 as much as possible. To pass the time, she reconnected with an old passion: crafting cuddly toys🧸. The baby👶 was finally born in perfect health ⚕️and Izabela decided to create a small business with the launch of a direct-to-consumer toy brand.

    To hire her first employees👩‍💼, she posted a short ad📢 targeting mothers🤱 looking to work from home. The result was stunning🌠🌠… She received more than 3,000 applications by email 📧and over the phone☎️. Izabela discovered that thousands of women were desperately🙏 looking for additional income💰 to make ends meet. Izabela’s mission🚀 shifted from a profit-based business to a social one, providing sustainable jobs with fair pay to stay-at-home 🏘️mothers.

    That is how BebeMoss was born as a responsible toy brand✔️. Every toy provides a fair trade income to a woman in need. Today, Izabela employs more than 100 mothers🌠 in Istanbul, Turkey🇹🇷, including 28 refugees from Syria 🇸🇾who are working hard to provide necessities for their families👏 while they rebuild their lives in a new country. www.bebemoss.com

    🌠🌠🌠At our own pace and scale, everyone can aspire to change the world!🌠🌠🌠

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