Small Business Loan Program
WBC graduates have the opportunity for low interest small business loans. The WBC prepares them for small business management, educates them in technical skills and does follow up to guarantee, to a certain extent, their success in business. This also increases the possibility of their paying back their loans. The program was initially created with a loan from IDB and strengthened recently with help from PetroEcuador in 2003.
THE FINE ART OF BAKING
Franklin Rey, WBC Graduate 1998
“I joined the Center with my mother and my 5 brothers and sisters in 1979. Although I was a teenager, in many ways I was the “father” of the family. What did the Center do for me? A great deal. Here in the Center I was educated, grew as an integral person, and came to understand the importance of Moral Values which are being lost in our society. In the Center I met my wife, who is my right arm, and the light of my life, with whom I have two beautiful children. The Center gave me the opportunity to study and graduate in the art of baking.
Today I work in the “Modern Bakery Group” as a department head and Commercial Evaluator of product development. I travel throughout Ecuador and South America and share my knowledge acquired in the Working Boys' Center.”