In 2009 we met a group of XtraOrdinary women living in La Chureca, Central America’s largest landfill site, and home to 2,000 of the nation’s poorest citizens. These women were stuck in cycles of poverty, and stuck on the mound of rubbish they called home.
We decided to create a program to train them with the skills they needed to get a job and then we connected them with local employment opportunities. We left the rest up to them.