Cynthia Hunefeld recalls drawing a circle around a small country at the bottom of her world map, at the age of 10, as her family made plans to emigrate from the Netherlands to New Zealand. Those plans changed soon after, however, when her father became seriously ill from an infection that developed into sepsis, and left the once fit and healthy firefighter permanently disabled.
Her father’s experience planted a seed in Hunefeld’s mind that she’d one day like to help others fighting illness. Now, that’s grown into a business that has ultimately taken root in the country she circled on the map
