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Empowering Vulnerable Women through Business


Cara Contreras is the Founder of SutiSana, a social enterprise that offers empowering employment to survivors of trafficking.

For the past ten years she has worked to create a successful business around the unique needs, skills, and dreams of women who have survived decades of abuse of sex trafficking. She believes that through community and just business, a business can work for more than simply profit, but can also heal people and benefit our planet. Together with her husband and two daughters they make their home in La Paz, Bolivia.


1. How did you come up with the idea to start this business

2. How many women have gone though your program

3. What does your company teach women

4. What type of Investor are you looking for?

5. What is your goal for this year

6. What type of help do you need to grow your company

7. What is the struggles you face with your company

8. Tell our listeners about the government in Bolivia?

9. What type of products do you sell

10. Anything you would like our listeners to know about?


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