Donatella Basdereff is a third-year social sciences bachelor student interested in all dynamics of entrepreneurship, creativity and social solutions. Studying at Sciences Po Paris, she will be based in Moscow until June 2014 as part of an academic year abroad spent at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations: MGIMO. She speaks fluently French, English and Spanish and learns Russian and Portuguese. She looks forward to reporting freelance on any events linked to her interests.
You want to change the world through business. You live in Moscow. You have an unusual money-making idea that will also benefit society. Where do you go? Not long after launching their own entrepreneurial projects, three young Russian women and an Englishman found themselves asking the same question.
In the 1990s, the plastic bag killed the Soviet Union’s disabled-run industries. Now one Russian social enterprise has brought it back to life, helping hundreds of the country’s blind and deaf with an idea made in the USSR.