Programs aiming to reduce the factors currently fostering the legacy of poverty were developed, focusing in promoting borderless productive competencies that are required by the new jobs arising from the global digital transformation of the 21st Century, in order to achieve true social inclusion with financial independence and certainty for the future.

These programs aim to strengthen people, so they can develop above and beyond circumstances, as adverse as these might be, and improve their quality of life through the development of productive skills, employment opportunities, self-employment, creation of small businesses and professionalize their capabilities by updating their knowledge.

This initiative of Carlos Slim Foundation, was created with the goal of developing the key productive competencies required by the industry for the next 5 years, without borders, without time or age limits and without requiring previous studies. Through free online training, this initiative promotes financial independency and continuing education, according to the requirements of the technological evolution and digital transformation of the 21st Century, leading to insertion and development in the new global economy.

Through the creation of courses, learning routes, diploma courses and operational specialties defined with the highest quality standards, safety and hygiene measures, as well as attention and service protocols in all productive sectors, this initiative promotes the development and updating of operational-technical and professional-technical skills leading to productive relationships that set the basis for further training to face challenges with enough confidence.

Over the course of twelve years, Grameen Carso has contributed to the economic development of underserved rural and urban areas with high levels of marginalization in the States of Chiapas, Oaxaca, Puebla and Zacatecas, granting funding to capitalize or to start small businesses through microcredits with the lowest interest rates to groups of women, in an effort to promote financial inclusion and economic development.

Committed to the country’s financial inclusion, Grameen Carso has collaborated in the implementation of new technologies developed by Banco de México, such as the innovative CoDi’s collection system.

Social investment fund that supports small growers in rural and marginal areas of Colombia, El Salvador and Haiti. Through a social enterprise model, ACCESO Fund benefits small growers by eliminating intermediation in the production chain, providing technical advice and establishing connections with high value markets. It works through a retail model that generates income mainly for women entrepreneurs and small agricultural growers.