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April 15th, 2021

Entrepreneurship: An interview with Margarita Andrade and Farida El Kalagy

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Estimated reading time: 10 minutes

Dipa Patel

April 15th, 2021

Entrepreneurship: An interview with Margarita Andrade and Farida El Kalagy

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Estimated reading time: 10 minutes

In the third episode of the Can You Hear Us podcast series, we introduce our second theme – Having it All – through the distinct lens of women of colour in entrepreneurship. To do so we present Margarita Anddrade, Co-founder of Malaika Linens and Threads of Hope Cairo, alongside LSE alumnus Fardida El Kalagy, Threads of Hope’s Sustainability and Development Head. Together, they introduce us to their new sustainable impact model while highlighting the importance of creating social enterprises that focus on women’s empowerment.

Compassion, putting yourself in the shoes of someone else, gives you so much strength” – Margarita Andrade

By sustainability we are focusing on three main aspects: financial sustainability, [….] technical sustainability and […] sustainable impact [which] is one of our main objectives.” – Farida ElKalagy

If you help a woman, you help the whole family–the neighbourhood. You help the world” – Margarita Andrade

 

Can You Hear Us? is a podcast affiliated to the LSE’s first society dedicated to Women of Colour in Consulting (WoCo), created by the 2020/21 Cohort. Find them on the LSE ID SoundCloud every other Thursday: https://soundcloud.com/lse_id/sets/can-you-hear-us.

 


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Dipa Patel

Dipa Patel is the Communications and Events Manager for the Department of International Development at LSE. She is also the Managing Editor of the ID at LSE Blog.

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