This young entrepreneur, Alessandra (Ali) Kitinas, has been inspired to help impoverished communities while using her innovative idea of creating body scrubs out of left-over coffee grounds, at the age of 14. She has come up with the idea to help reduce products being left in a landfill and recycled this product instead. She then sends a percentage of her proceeds to “child soldiers and women living in poverty over in Rwanda and Asia.” Also, through the purchase of each of her products, 87 cents goes to providing children in Kolka and India, access to healthcare and medical resources.

Ali’s product is unique because of the ability to recycle used products and make them into something newer, especially when they would normally be discarded or considered garbage. Her idea is basically driven by a need to help other people and promote the ability to reduce, reuse, and recycle . This idea is considered great because of the simplicity of the concept and how it could have been picked up from anyone else, but she capitalized on this opportunity. She has higher ambitions with providing underprivileged people in other countries a better chance of life through her profits.

She demonstrates high ambition and a strong understanding of how the business world works. Also, being Australia’s youngest CEO, she has made quite a name for herself. Ali’s ability to see a need and try to fulfill it, while creating a new product, makes her an excellent entrepreneur. Not all entrepreneurs succeed with every idea they have, but with a charitable cause, sometimes it creates a higher chance of success. Her product isn’t a completely new idea, but she created her own spin on an existing market and product. With the coffee grounds being incorporated into her body scrubs, she took an existing product and made it unique.

She has inspired me to look for needs and brainstorm new ideas to try to fulfill them. Also, it has inspired me to start as soon as possible. I think it’s incredible that these young entrepreneurs took a simple idea when they were in their teens and acted upon them. I have learned I am continuing to grow more confident to pursue my dream of having my own business and helping others because that is what I was born to do. I know that being an entrepreneur isn’t the only way to help others’ lives, but I believe that I’m being pulled in that direction. Learning from an inspiring, young entrepreneur has strengthened my ambition to create something amazing!

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