geo/colombia
Largest online commerce ecosystem in Latin America present in 18 countries. It offers six integrated e-commerce and digital payments services, including the Mercado Libre Marketplace.
Global non-profit committed to ending extreme poverty and promoting quality education for families. They provide financial resources, training and support to start small businesses and earn living wages.
Canada’s development finance institution dedicated to providing financial services to the private sector focusing on economic development through job creation, women’s economic empowerment and climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Paypal’s open digital payments platform gives its more than over 270 million active account holders. better ways to manage and move money and offers flexibility when sending payments, paying or getting paid.
FMO is the Dutch development bank, empowering entrepreneurs in emerging markets, focusing on underserved markets and key sectors for development.
Global nonprofit leading the effort to improve the lives of billions through access to financial services and products.
British International Investment (ex CDC Group) is UK’s development finance institution and wholly owned by the UK government. It supports businesses throughout Africa and South Asia.
Skills training and technological tools will be provided to 1,000 young coffee farmers in areas of Colombia that were previously affected by conflict. The initiative was launched in partnership Starbucks and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). This is one part of a range of measures which the coffee chain says forms part of its commitment to sourcing ethical and sustainable coffee.
Starbucks claimed the support would help young coffee farmers build greater resiliency and expertise; and vowed to continue creating opportunities in some of Colombia’s most vulnerable coffee-growing communities. The firm will also contribute $2 million to a farmer loan program focused on smallholder women coffee farmers in collaboration with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Starbucks is also working with the IDB to contribute to the economic and social empowerment of 2,000 women-led smallholder coffee growers in the states of Antioquia and Chocó.
