Colombia, Mexico, Chile, Venezuela and Brazil have five Social Entrepreneur of the Year honored during the Latin American edition of the World Economic Forum in Rio de Janeiro. Claudia Valladares (pictured, with the prize in his hands) received the distinction for the work of Community Banking Banesco in Venezuela. Five
received on Thursday Social Entrepreneurs the award for Social Entrepreneur of the Year at the World Economic Forum on Latin America 2011, which concluded today in Rio de Janeiro. Awards Social Entrepreneur of the Year in Latin America were provided by Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum, and Mirjam Schoening, director of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. CIES Hilde Schwab, president of the Schwab Foundation, said: "While we lay the groundwork for the decade of growth in Latin America, the role of social entrepreneurs in facilitating the conditions for growth and ensure that do not forget people during the development process is even more important. These social entrepreneurs are recognizing today are critical to the future of the continent and to improve the state of the world. " Schoening, meanwhile, explained: "Social entrepreneurs are the driving force behind the innovations that improve the quality of life for people around the world. While the main focus of social entrepreneurs is to apply a specific change in one area, such as access to education or affordable housing, addressing social entrepreneurs as to cause a social impact, using innovative and effective models, addition to collaboration across multiple sectors, has inspired changes between governments and the private sector similarly. In fact, social entrepreneurs are changing not only citizens, but that are transforming the way governments and businesses working for the citizens. " Francesco Piazzesi - Check Your Home (Mexico): Piazzesi grew up in Mexico in a family devoted to the construction business, and wrote his doctoral thesis on "Sustainable Microfinance Mortgage" before launching a social enterprise to focus on sustainable housing for people with limited resources. Approximately 1,100 million people around the world live in poor households. Check Your House found a solution for low-income people may own homes structurally sound in an affordable and sustainable. Check begins working on creating communities, first production units of social housing and providing training to the community, both in financial education in basic construction skills. The organization helps the community to develop a credit union to provide savings and loans, also works with the federal mortgage company to allow community members to have their housing own. Take promotes environmentally compatible solutions for housing, for example, build houses made of 90% with soil, and incorporate solar powered heating, biogas digesters and wastewater collection systems rain water. They built about 26 thousand homes. Also, the construction process has generated 130 000 jobs and $ 65 million in income for those working in the industry microconstrucción. Hilde Schwab said: "Take The model is confronting poverty in a versatile and reproducible. Generates job growth with microconstrucción industry, creates stability financial trust funds for the community and mortgages for self, and build social capital through these practices. " 
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