After long weeks documenting each success story of the campaign Peruvians who Addfinally in the month of November the voting on the initiative of Commerce and the BCP, which in its third edition seeks to recognize those who are changing their communities from day to day.
This required a tour of almost two months through more than 20 regions of the country in which this medium took the time to collect each testimony of success and improvement. The journalistic team selected nine finalists from a record number of applicants, and now it will be the public who decides with their vote which story deserves to be the winner.
Regarding the closing of voting for the campaign Peruvians who Addwe remember Rodolfo Ortiz, the Cajamarcan inventor who created a water purifier to benefit rural populations.
At the end of the eighties, little Rodolfo Ortiz would run out of school so as not to miss an episode of “A Window into the Future”, an Australian program that showed what would be the revolutionary inventions that would arrive with the new century. Seeing it, he created, for example, a scale magnetic levitation train. A technology that until then only operated experimentally in the United Kingdom. And although this was a sample of his talent, few imagined that over time that curious student would become a prolific inventor willing to transform the world.
“As soon as I left school I studied a technical degree in electronics at a local institute. My skills led me to eventually be hired by that same institute as part of its technical team.. Then I studied Business Administration, I have a master’s degree in Management and studies at the Catholic University (PUCP) and George Washington University,” Rodolfo summarizes.
As part of the Peruanos que Suman campaign of El Comercio and the BCP we arrived in Cajamarca to meet the mind behind a novel multiple mechanical ventilator that served to face the health emergency unleashed by the COVID-19 pandemic or a system capable of making the water that reaches the rural communities in its region drinkable.
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Among the finalists are teachers, farmers, environmentalists and cultural managers, among other professions, who represent the best of the country. One of them is Elsa Yarleque, who works for the inclusion of neurodivergent children and adults in Huaral; Yolanda Cadenillas, who is fighting to recover El Ferrol bay in Chimbote; Luis Miguel Zárate, who built an artistic gym from scratch in Casma; Marina Auris, who plants guarangos in Ica with schoolchildren; and Miguel Ángel Ballumbrosio, who promotes Chinchano culture in El Carmen. Completing the list are Rómulo Zamora, who promotes technical irrigation in Andahuaylas; Fredy Castro, who plants at more than 4,500 meters in Ayacucho; Saturnino Quispe, alpaca keeper in Huancavelica; and Fidel Cueva, who turned a puddle into a wetland in Chupaca.
The vote will remain valid until midnight this Friday and only one vote per device is allowed in the El Comercio web special. The most voted story will receive S/ 30,000 to grow their project, while second place will receive S/ 10,000. The winner will be contacted on November 9 and their name will be officially announced in the coming days.
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 this site web.
Voting is open until Friday, 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.
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.
