Celebrating Our First Graduating Class!

Celebrating a Milestone

Congratulations to the first graduating class of entrepreneurs from SPI's ESCALA (ESCuela de negocios para la Avance de Latino América) Business School! On November 30th at the Pachacamac, Peru site museum,  fifty participants - thirty-eight women - received graduation certificates for successfully completing the ESCALA curriculum. With your help, SPI will continue to expand this remarkable new program in Peru and globally to give women and other marginalized entrepreneurs the tools they need to flourish. To learn more about the ESCALA curriculum and business school and its results to date, click here.

Our Executive Director, Larry Coben, handed out “diplomas” to ESCALA graduates.

Our Executive Director, Larry Coben, handed out “diplomas” to ESCALA graduates.

Family members of the ESCALA graduates also participated in the ceremony.

Family members of the ESCALA graduates also participated in the ceremony.

Members from SISAN, an all-female artisan association started by SPI, proudly show off their ESCALA Business School completion certificates.

Members from SISAN, an all-female artisan association started by SPI, proudly show off their ESCALA Business School completion certificates.

Congratulations to the first graduating class of entrepreneurs from SPI's ESCALA (ESCuela de negocios para la Avance de Latino América) Business School! On November 30th at the Pachacamac, Peru site museum,  fifty participants - thirty-eight women -…

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