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Catalyst 2030 is a global movement of social entrepreneurs and social innovators from all sectors who share the common goal of creating innovative, people-centric approaches to attain the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.
While working in the pediatric ward of a public hospital in Rio de Janeiro, in the late 1980s, I observed that many patients’ mothers were single parents, without child support, living in shacks falling apart. The children would be admitted to the hospital, treated, and discharged — and then the children would be readmitted, sometimes within weeks. This was a vicious cycle. Vera understood that to break this vicious cycle, traditional healthcare, not only in Brazil but elsewhere in the world, was not enough
Author: Vera Cordeiro, Founder and President of Dara Institute
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