A Skylight Production

DISRUPTION explores the work of Fundación Capital, (Winners of the 2014 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship), a group of Latin American activist-economists that is pioneering strategies for financial inclusion across the region by aligning policy, market mechanisms, and advances in technology to create programs that place women at the center of the drive for social change. They collaborate with governments, big banks, and women marginalized by poverty in Peru, Colombia, and Brazil, to expand financial inclusion with a digital educational tools that piggyback on existing Conditional Cash Transfer to layer on ideas of asset-building, saving, and economic rights. The women who participate in the program become empowered economic and political agents in their communities, leading the process of societal transformation from the bottom up. Fundación Capital has already reached 3 million people; if the model is taken to scale, can 20 million women upend a continent? DISRUPTION sets the stage for this potential paradigm shift.

Un grupo de activistas-economistas de América Latina proponen ideas innovadoras sobre cómo disminuir la inequidad, colaborando mujeres marginalizadas por la pobreza, gobiernos, y bancos. Su organización, Fundación Capital (cariñosamente conocida como FundaK), diseña e implementa herramientas educativas digitales para difundir el conocimiento financiero. El programa ya ha logrado empoderar económicamente a las mujeres que participan en ello y además fomenta su participación cívica en sus propias comunidades. Ya están involucradas 3 millones de mujeres; ¿si eso llegara a gran escala, podrían 20 millones de mujeres cambiar un continente, creando un punto de quiebre en la estructura social?