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In this episode, I spoke to Malaysian entrepreneur Shamala Hinrichsen.\\xa0
\\n\\nShamala is the founder of Hanai, a social enterprise that empowers women to take charge of their health.\\xa0
\\n\\nHer first app, Hanai Jiwa Ibu, targeted at rural Malaysia provides women with access to information about maternal, mental health and domestic violence in addition to a complete doctor\\u2019s directory and information on COVID-19.\\xa0
\\n\\nInspired by her own grandmother, Shamala who now lives in Germany with her husband and two children, calls herself an Ipoh girl at heart.
\\n\\nShe worked in three continents - North America, Asia an Europe - and trained as a scientist and in her own words, had a comfortable life and career.\\xa0
\\n\\nHer pivotal turn came when she spent four months in India.
\\n\\nShamala says, \\u201cA large part of the world is actually still rural and women never know what to do in an emergency, never know that it is an emergency and that they need to do something right there.\\u201d\\xa0
\\n\\nShe adds, \\u201cWe want to be in that position to give every woman the ability to make decisions on her own and get help.\\u201d
\\n\\nIn this episode, Shamala talks about:
\\n\\nFor more information about her, visit WomenpreneurAsia.com
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