In 2013, Amber Runyon decided she had to start a business -- any business -- that would help victims of human trafficking.
But she had only $250 to get it off the ground.
Runyon was on a medical mission trip Ethiopia when the plan struck her. A hospice care nurse at the time, Runyon was walking through a village in the capital, Addis Ababa, when she met a five-year-old girl named Mulu. "From the moment she held my hand I knew in some way she belonged to me and I belonged to her," she recalls. This Chicago business trains former inmates to be beekeepersRunyon would check up on Mulu whenever she visited Ethiopia.
Runyon said she named her company Eleventh Candle because it"symbolizes our belief that there is hope in the eleventh hour." Eventually, she wants to turn the business into a franchise and create opportunities for vulnerable women in other cities. "But my goal is to never hire more than 15 people [at any location]," she said."You can be like a family and effect change in each others' lives when you stay as a small team.
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