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Learning from a social entrepreneur

This video tells you the fascinating story of the social enterprise SapoCycle.

SapoCycle is a social enterprise, established 2014 in Basel. In this video, Georg von Schnurbein talks to Cintia Jaime, co-founder of the foundation, about her motivation for and the challenges in starting it.

The basic idea is to collect used soap in luxury hotels, wash and refine them, and then distribute the recycled soap to people in developing countries in order to leverage hygienic standards.

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