Disruption: Can 20 Million Women Upend a Continent?

Disruption explores the work of the organisation Fundación Capital, (Winners of the 2014 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship), who are pioneering strategies for financial inclusion across the Latin America by aligning policy, market mechanisms, and advances in technology to create programs that empower women to escape poverty, drive social change and improve the lives of their families and communities.

In this documentary, a band of Latin American activist-economists sets out to reduce inequality in the region with a model that places women at the center of the drive for social change. Collaborating with governments, big banks, and women marginalized by poverty in Peru, Colombia, and Brazil, they spread financial literacy horizontally using digital education tools and innovative strategies for financial inclusion. Through the program, the women become empowered economic and political agents in their communities, leading the process of societal transformation from the bottom up. 3 millions lives have already been changed. If the model is taken to scale, can 20 million women to upend a continent?

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