Foto: Equipo de Fundación del Centavo, diciembre de 2025
About us
History
Samuel Greene, a retired American businessman, settled on the shores of Lake Atitlán in 1962.
He makes friends with Cakchiquel farmers and identifies the need for microcredit. He begins this work on a personal level and teaches farmers to save pennies a day to pay the credit weekly. This methodology was successful and gave its name to the Centavo Foundation.
In 1963, seeing that the need exceeded his resource capacity, he contacted 44 businessmen, who provided seed capital to form the Institution.
Since then, the Centavo Foundation has had microcredit experiences for housing, land ownership and productive projects, mainly agricultural and artisanal.
Imágenes de Samuel Greene – Fundador de FUNDACEN
Mission
Promote the comprehensive development of people with quality, through microcredit and training, without distinction of ethnicity, sex or creed.
Vision
To be a self-sustaining, expanding institution and leader in rural development.
Values
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Discipline
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Effort
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Dignity
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Integrity
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Social conscience
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Kindness
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Partners or Networks to which FUNDACEN belongs
Partners or Networks to which FUNDACEN belongs
Board of Directors
President
Sr. Eduardo Olivero
Treasurer
Dr. Pedro Rendón
Vowel I
Lic. Walter Hillermann
Vowel III
Lic. Horacio Leiva
Director Friend
Eng. Roberto Bosch
Vicepresident
Ing. Juan Arrivillaga
Secretary
Ing. Guillermo De León
Vowel II
Dr. Eduardo Aguilar
Substitute principal
Ing. Silvia Dávila de la Parra