When the 2010 earthquake hit in Haiti, Viviana Alvarez was sitting at her desk in the UK. Immediately, she wanted to quit her job and help – but she didn’t. Instead, she leveraged her job to make the greatest difference SHE could make.
In addition to her position as a Global Customer Service Manager, supply chain, Spain, Vivi is a Unilever Global Foundation Ambassador and the President and co-founder of an NGO called H2H, Help to Haiti. In 2010, she was driven to help the people of Haiti after the devastating earthquake that struck; and inspired by the humanitarian work her brother and mother were doing there. Vivi’s story exemplifies how social entrepreneurship can thrive within a corporate environment. Four years later, H2H remains focused on delivering humanitarian and basic needs, infrastructure, education, health and micro-financing to Haitian families while Vivi leverages her real world experience to advise Unilever on how to scale up a unique business model for market development in regions they currently underserve.
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