San José, November 3 rd , 2023 - As a token of appreciation for the opportunity to attend festivals and camps of world-renowned music schools such as Luzerne Music Center, International Katarzyna Mycka Marimba Academy, British Isles Music Festival, among others, the 43 students of the National Institute of Music (INM) who were awarded scholarships by the Social Support Foundation (FAS) of the ...
San José, March 30 th , 2023 - Malka Quirós Ruiz is a Costa Rican head of household who lives in Bagaces, a canton in Costa Rica's North Pacific region historically affected by high arsenic residues in the water. Her life, like that of 12,000 other inhabitants of the area, changed when the project to expand and improve the aqueduct that now provides them with clean water service came into ...
San Jose, June 30th, 2022.- Flor Franco, in addition to being the owner of the Leño y Carbón restaurant, is one of the 817 micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) that have benefited in Costa Rica through the Central American Bank for Economic Integration's (CABEI) Financial Sector Support Facility for MSME Financing. Their business is made up of 24 workers who kept their jobs during the ...
Tegucigalpa, June 28th, 2022.- Two years after the implementation of the Financial Sector Support Facility for financing MSMEs of the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) , 9,256 jobs have been protected in Honduras, of which 2,261 are women. Among them, Rosa Argentina Brizzio Medina, owner of a grocery microenterprise in Colonia Nueva Suyapa in Tegucigalpa, who was one of the ...
Tegucigalpa, Honduras March 11, 2021.- The Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) today approved US$35 million in financing to the Republic of Honduras for the acquisition of 2.8 million COVID-19 vaccines to vaccinate 1.4 million people at a rate of two doses per person. This will partially support the implementation of the Republic of Honduras' National COVID-19 Vaccine ...
San José, 6 de octubre de 2022.- The Cabécars are a native ethnic group in Costa Rica who live mostly in mountainous areas far from commerce, which makes it difficult for them to access food and basic health care products, as they have to walk between 4 and 7 hours to be able to shop. Aware of these difficulties, the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) approved a US$2,000 grant ...
Tegucigalpa, May 18, 2021.- Through the Housing and Sustainable Habitat Development Program (VIDHAS), the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) has approved US$596.7 million since 2015 to finance housing construction and improvement, as well as access to mortgage loans for the benefit of 109,122 families in Central America. VIDHAS expects to benefit with 27,825 new homes, 26,500 ...
Tegucigalpa, November 10, 2021.- The Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI), in response to opinions expressed in some media about the Relief Bond Program for Vulnerable Families Affected by Natural Phenomena Resulting from Climate Change in Honduras, communicates the following: In accordance with its mission to promote the integration and balanced economic and social development ...
San José, July 20, 2021 - A total of 167 small Costa Rican companies, 33 micro and one medium-sized company have accessed financing from the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) channeled through its commercial allies such as financial institutions. The resources requested by this productive sector since 2020 to date, which come from the Financial Sector Support Facility for the ...
San José, November 24, 2021 - A total of 200 trees of eight different species donated by the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) will reforest the entrance to Fortuna de San Carlos, in northern Costa Rica. The donation, equivalent to US$3,000, is part of the Footprint of the Future initiative, which aims to plant 200,000 endemic, flowering, fruit and timber trees in the area ...