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How to create economic prosperity in rural communities

In this episode of the Better Heroes podcast series, host Matt C. Smith talks to Sebastian Salinas about working alongside rural community members to teach entrepreneurship and economic development.

What do you do if you live in a rural community where jobs are scarce? Is migration to a bigger city a sufficient solution? How can we develop local economies?

Today’s Better Hero is Sebastian Salinas, Founder and Executive Director at Balloon Latam. His goal is to work alongside rural community members to teach entrepreneurship and economic development.

Learn more about Balloon Latam here.

Key takeaways: 

  • Balloon Latam aids in the development of rural communities by facilitating the acquisition of skills and resources, empowering local entrepreneurs and artisans to flourish.
  • Through the EY Ripples program, EY professionals work with impact entrepreneurs in-person or virtually, offering support to help improve their businesses’ resilience, productivity and capacity to scale sustainably. The program brings together the combined skills, knowledge and experience of the global EY network in pursuit of one shared vision: to positively impact one billion lives by 2030.

You can also listen to this podcast via other platforms including Apple and Spotify.

For your convenience, full text transcript of this podcast is also available.


Presenters


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Matt C Smith
Professional MC, Broadcaster & Host,
The Lunicorn

Podcast

Episode 7

Duration

0h 33m 39s