Newsletter: From Orphaned Child to Empowered Entrepreneur!

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Standing at just 4’3”, Grace Ramirez had every reason to fade into the background. Orphaned by the age of 12, she became a second parent to her younger sibling while still a child herself. Her life in the province was far from easy—selling vegetables, coconuts, and even collecting scraps to survive.

“Life didn’t give me a choice,” she recalls. “I had to grow up fast.”