After almost two months of intense travel through various corners of the country, the campaign Peruvians who Add reaches its final weeks inviting everyone to vote for their favorite candidate.
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—This was the trip through Peru—
The El Comercio team, made up of video director Lenin Tadeo and reporter Miguel Rocca toured Lima, Áncash, La Libertad, Lambayeque, Piura, Tumbes and Cajamarca, Ica, Arequipa, Moquegua, Tacna, Puno, Cusco, Abancay, Ayacucho, Huancavelica, Junín, Pasco, Huánuco and San Martín in search of the best stories of Peruvians who contribute, who are innovative, creative and resilient, and are generating changes in their community and contributing to a better society. This tour of these towns was divided into three trips and lasted about a month and a half of hard work, and the results are 9 finalists that are worth knowing.
—The 9 finalists—
Elsa Yarleque helps neurodivergent children and adults, with ADHD and autism from Huaral, to integrate into a society that views them with reservations. Yolanda Cadenillasfrom Chimbote, wants to recover El Ferrol bay, today full of pollution due to fishing activity and apathy on the part of the authorities. Luis Miguel Zárate is a teacher from Casma who has built and managed – from scratch – the implementation of an artistic gym for his students.
Marina Auris She is the guardian of the desert, together with school children she began to plant thousands of guarango trees, which today can be seen throughout Ica. In El Carmen, Miguel Ángel Ballumbrosio It has a cultural center that forms and encourages, in children and young people, all the flavor and color of Chinchana culture. While in Andahuaylas, Romulo Zamora He is a farmer of almost 80 years who has been concerned that technical irrigation reaches more families in the area.
In Ayacucho, Fredy Castro He is a professor who, with a phyto-tent, has shown his colleagues and students that it is possible to plant crops at more than 4,500 meters above sea level. In Huancavelica, Saturnino Quispe He showed us his love for the alpacas that he cares for on the slopes of the Huamanrazu hill, more than 4700 meters high. And in Junín, Fidel Cuevaanother teacher, taught us how a puddle located in Chupaca became a beautiful wetland that today is home to thousands of birds.
Among these 9 finalists, the winner of Peruanos que Suman will emerge. An initiative between the Banco de Crédito del Perú and the newspaper El Comercio that is being carried out for the third time and that in this edition has had a record of applicants seeking to be recognized for their actions. The campaign will reward the first place in the contest with an amount of 30 thousand soles, which will be used to continue their good work, grow their proposal and expand their benefits. In addition, second place will receive a sum of 10 thousand soles.
To choose the 9 finalists, a jury made up of prominent journalists from this newspaper, as well as senior executives from BCP, evaluated each of the stories collected in each city where the El Comercio team passed through. After choosing these 9 stories, the contest entered its final stage where it is you, our readers and users, who will choose the winner, via vote on the website https://especial.elcomercio.pe/peruanos-que-suman/.
Voting is open until November 6so if you already have your favorite candidate, we invite you to vote for him and help him win in this third edition of the campaign. On November 13, El Comercio and the BCP will announce the name of the winner, via social networks and also in the printed edition of the Dean.
