Oct 12, 2023
Posted by: Sujit Kunte
Argentina,
Max Otto Roller,
SDG 10,
SDG 11,
SDG 16,
SDG 17,
SDG 2,
SDG 3,
SDG 4,
SDG 5,
SDG 8
Max: It’s great to be here, Spiffy! Our mission is to address the challenge of providing life-saving support and protecting the rights of refugees, asylum-seekers, and stateless individuals who have been forced to flee their homes due to conflict, persecution, or other crises. We strive to ensure their safety, dignity, and access to essential resources.
Felipe: Thanks for having me, Spiffy! In Latin America, retail is 62% hyper local. 50 million families rely on their independent shops to survive. However, they have no bank account, business license, or bookkeeping. This makes them invisible to the financial system, and blocks them from accessing fair credit and financial products. They are forced to borrow from loan sharks, risk fraud in payments, and loss of margins. At Bolsiyo, we’re committed to make shops visible via our cash register app. With minimal effort, shops are able to keep detailed accounts of their operation, access payments, deposits, and soon credit products. This means they have the base level tools to become more efficient in a way that works for them, with all the fair financial tools at their disposal.
Robert: Thanks for having me, Spiffy. As much as 40% of food produced in the United States is wasted. When food ends up in landfills, it emits methane gasses that are 34 times worse for the environment than carbon dioxide. Such emissions disproportionately impact urban lower-income communities in terms of health, proper housing conditions, and overall quality of life, according to the Fourth National Climate Assessment. All the while, as of 2020, 38 million Americans—that is one in nine of us—remain food insecure. In households with children, the frequency increases to one in seven.
