ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
Social problems must be attended with strategies focused on eliminating backwardness, proposing solutions and providing the necessary resources to do so. The economic and social development programs of Carlos Slim Foundation promote activities that provide jobs and opportunities aimed to strengthening the social network, under the understanding that people and communities should be active participants in the development process.
The Historic Center Foundation was established in 2002 with the goal of joining Mexico City’s Historic Center Rehabilitation Plan. Since its creation, the Foundation has developed programs to improve the quality of life of Mexico’s downtown inhabitants through the following lines of action: Employability, Education and training, Health and Community Life; as well as artistic activities that are performed in the area through the cultural program Atrio de San Francisco.
Results
15’245,306 people benefited until 2022
In activities such as: psychological counseling; health conferences; work in schools, public spaces and housing units; cultural and recreational activities, educational scholarships, trade workshops; and microcredits.
More than 100 exhibitions and various cultural activities have gathered more than 8'000,000 visitors throughout 20 years of presenting these public events
Support to the World Monuments Fund in the rehabilitation of “El Rule” building
The number of inhabited housing units increased by 25% in the first 10 years
1,111 building façades were rehabilitated
33 shopping malls
40 squares and public gardens
23,900 relocated merchants
36,700 m2 of streets were cleared out
More than 250,000 m2 of streets and sidewalks were rehabilitated
110 surveillance video-cameras connected to a control station
The secondary network of potable water, drainage, power and fiber optics was built
65,000 new jobs
From 2016, the Historic Center Foundation moved its experience and intervention model to Pensil neighborhood in Miguel Hidalgo municipality of Mexico City, dealing with issues related to health, employment and education; based on the community intervention model, which consists in detecting the people’s needs from their own voice and recognizing the community resources from first hand, through intervention pillars: Education and training, Employability and Health.
Results
102,146 people were benefited.
In activities such as: entrepreneurship workshops and advise for employment; social skills’ workshops in schools, housing units, public and virtual spaces; individual, family and group psychological counseling; health conferences and health promotion.
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 microbusinesses 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.
Resultados
600,226 productive microcredits benefited 155,839 women entrepreneurs
This square represents the transformation and urban improvement of the Basilica of our Lady of Guadalupe and its surroundings.
“Project built and donated to the people of Mexico and to the pilgrims of the world” Carlos Slim Helú
Results
20'000,000 pilgrims benefited per year
68,000 m2 built, divided in:
Evangelization Center of 9,000 m2
Public Market of 13,000 m2
120,000 burial niches in 16,000 m2
Guadalupe Museum of 7,300 m2
Public square of 10,000 m2
Dining room, toilets, infirmary and area for pilgrims.
Between 1975 and 2006, the Bordo de Xochiaca open-air waste dump, in the State of Mexico, accumulated more than 12 million tons of trash. It’s estimated that the waste dump produced around 22,000 tons of dust and particles per year, and the equivalent of 200 m3 of pollutant loads in sewage, impacting more than 5 million people.
The project Bicentennial Garden City (2008) was one of the most significant and sustainable urban reconversion projects in the world, transforming an environmental liability into an economic and social asset for its inhabitants.
On a surface area of 150 hectares we developed, among other facilities: a shopping mall, a Teleton children’s rehabilitation center, two universities, a hospital and one of the biggest sport centers of the country with 54 courts and an Olympic stadium with capacity for 3,650 people.
Results
The project enabled the creation of more than 5,000 direct and indirect jobs, as well as the economic revival of the area.
More than 132,000 people benefited per year. The sport facilities helped improving local residents’ health.
This project was conceptualized from a perspective of economic self-sustainability with environmental benefits:
More than 350,000 m2 of grass
93,000 tons of CO2 air emissions have been avoided, per year
There is potential to recover up to 5 million liters of water to maintain the green areas through rainfall collection ponds.
