A social entrepreneur on how to make money

At the Skoll World Forum, Global X ran into Martin Burt, the social entrepreneur who launched Fundación Paraguaya, an organization that has already supported 30,000 microentrepreneurs, who in turn have created 19,000 new jobs. Two years ago, he took over a bankrupt agricultural school and turned it into a sustainable enterprise that helps young people learn to think of themselves not as “poor campesinos” but as “rural entrepreneurs.”

“We want to make sure that our country’s inhabitants become citizens,” he told Global X over a drink at Oxford. “It’s not about growing tomatoes. Campesinos have been growing tomatoes for centuries! It’s about how to make money while growing tomatoes. Our goal is to teach the poor how to make money, so that they have a chance to become true citizens of their own country.”


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