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Today’s entrepreneurs who want to reduce the cost of hospital equipment down to less than $1,000 (£736) per item and ensure that girls around the world have access to a technical education have two things in common.
They’re focused on innovating for a positive social purpose, and they’re women.
They told us their stories as part of a special series from the Sky News Daily podcast with Dermot Murnaghan on the impact of women on society.
Sophia Mahfouz is a British Afghan whose family fled the country in 1999 after her village was bombed when the Taliban first took over.
She told the Sky News Daily podcast how, after seven years in a refugee camp in Peshawar, her family made their way to England.
Things weren’t immediately easy once she arrived in England, but she eventually went to a comprehensive school and then on to UCL – and today she is start-up founder, living in San Francisco where she has launched NeuroX Health.
As a girl from Afghanistan, Ms Mahfouz credits her access to technology with transforming her life, especially the education she was supported in by her engineer father.
Inspired by her brother, Ms Mahfouz’s company, NeuroX, enables people with bipolar disorder to manage their mental health by using personalised, data-driven treatment plans.
Girls in Afghanistan are regularly prevented from attending school. File pic.
“I would not be able to go from being a child refugee… in Afghanistan to now building important technology businesses in California if it weren’t for the tech education that I had. So I think that on an individual case, it’s incredibly transformative and powerful.
“We’ve worked with women and girls throughout six continents and 60 locations where we’ve seen the direct impact and more importantly, the…
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