Jose Adolfo Quisocala Condori
Nationality: Perú
Organization Name: Cooperativa del Estudiante Bartselana
Impact Region: LATAM
About the Social Business: The Student Bank teaches financial education and inclusion, entrepreneurship and environmental education in a practical and experiential way. His clients-partners are children and young people. Their currency for financial operations is the solid waste that is generated in kid's homes and schools, the "Eco Moneda”. His founders started the Student Bank at the age of 7.
About the Y&Y Fellow: José Adolfo lives in Arequipa, Peru. He is a Socio-Environmental entrepreneur, founder of the first Eco Cooperative Student Bank for girls, boys and young people. At just 7 years old, he undertook this social initiative in order to reduce poverty, reduce school dropouts, eradicate child labor, and protect the environment, through savings with "Eco Monedas" = solid waste. Recycling material that students bring to school and ends up being converted into money that is deposited into their savings accounts. Today, at the age of 15, he works to turn his project into a model of "Digital Social Banking", with the purpose of contributing to financial inclusion in his country and promoting family economic reactivation in Peru, Latin American and the Caribbean region.
Jose Adolfo Quisocala Condori
Nationality: Perú
Organization Name: Cooperativa del Estudiante Bartselana
Impact Region: LATAM
About the Social Business: The Student Bank teaches financial education and inclusion, entrepreneurship and environmental education in a practical and experiential way. His clients-partners are children and young people. Their currency for financial operations is the solid waste that is generated in kid's homes and schools, the "Eco Moneda”. His founders started the Student Bank at the age of 7.
About the Y&Y Fellow: José Adolfo lives in Arequipa, Peru. He is a Socio-Environmental entrepreneur, founder of the first Eco Cooperative Student Bank for girls, boys and young people. At just 7 years old, he undertook this social initiative in order to reduce poverty, reduce school dropouts, eradicate child labor, and protect the environment, through savings with "Eco Monedas" = solid waste. Recycling material that students bring to school and ends up being converted into money that is deposited into their savings accounts. Today, at the age of 15, he works to turn his project into a model of "Digital Social Banking", with the purpose of contributing to financial inclusion in his country and promoting family economic reactivation in Peru, Latin American and the Caribbean region.