Daise de Rosas da Natividade from EOSS in focus as Vital Voices "Emerging Woman Leader"

A film crew engaged by Vital Voices was doing a reportage of woman social entrepreneur projects that EOSS Consulting and Director Daise Rosas da Natividade are supporting .

Daise and the President of the Agency for Local Development Ana Lucia

Vital Voices Global Partnership is a non-governmental organization (NGO) that identifies, trains and empowers emerging women leaders and social entrepreneurs around the globe, enabling them to create a better world for us all.

Asking Daise about her participation in the Vital Voices program, she told the following:
The invitation of Vital Voices to join their Woman Leaders program has opened my eyes about the importance of working with women and more than that on building a strong network between women. The program helped to shape our entrepreneur consulting firm towards more structured and fruitful practices. I am very proud today to see that the women that we support, create new workplaces for other women and mentor them in their personal and professional growth. 

In order to give Vital Voices a good picture of the impact Daise and EOSS are making in developing social entrepreneurship in the Rio de Janeiro region, a couple of different locations and institutions that EOSS is supporting currently were chosen to be visited .

First place of the visit was the City of God (Cidade de Deus) where EOSS consults the Agency for Local Development and the Center of Woman Eco Arts. As we recently reported EOSS is consulting the agency in their creation of a Community Bank with the objective of sustainable development in the community by encouraging local entrepreneurship and consumption.

The center of Women Eco Arts is supported by EOSS with social entrepreneurs courses and has been a very successful project in helping them to create of a production line for fashion articles made of recycled materials.
The Arts Center deploys currently 20 women of the community and creates awareness amongst all residents for recycling in an extremely polluted environment.

The woman showed how the recycled material is used smartly to produce toys, handbags and jewelery. With rivers that are sometimes completely covered of trash, creating awareness for the nature and recycling is crucial to improve the life quality of the residents in the community.


Women Eco Arts also initiated the the Favela Fashion group, a cooperative with 5 other communites in order to promote their crafts in fashion shows and local craft markets. EOSS facilitated their participation of the  in the parade of the Brazil 2010 Expo.

Toys made of recycled plastic  bottles

Next stop of the film crew was back in the city center of Rio de Janeiro, at the Hair Studio Quilamur.

The studio is run by Claudia Taliah who was supported by EOSS to take part in the "Youth in Business program", funded by the U.S. State Department. The Hair Studio is in the meantime financed and runs independently.
Claudia has become a teacher in classes that EOSS sponsored for about 60 other students in Noava Iguaçu, Belford Roxo and São João de Meriti. These student are currently working on a business plan to offer their services as cooperative at international events and on cruise ships.
Daise explained this typical example of multiplication of the EOSS support in the hair studio whilst Claudia was working with a showing student on a dread lock.

After this stop, the whole crew went on a trip deep inside the north of the state of Rio de Janeiro a place called Itatiaia, known for its banana palm-trees and gentle hills that are covered with rainforest.
The Secretariat of Policies for Women is running a production site of fashion articles there. 

EOSS supports them with entrepreneurial courses for woman who produce fashion articles with sustainable material like recycled paper and banana fibers. The focus of the courses is on pricing, marketing, creation of a plan for entry into new markets and an online shop. In addition EOSS will facilitate the creation of cooperatives with institutions that produce similar products.

Just as the sun went down the team arrived and left the traffic behind to take some beautiful shots of the production sight with the last sun rays of the day. As a demonstration the fiber of a Banana tree was cut out and prepared to be used for the production of their innovative crafts.