Activity Description: Accion Emprendedora (AE) is a non-profit organization formed by young professionals and students that work with low income entrepreneurs. AE's objective is to break the chains of poverty through the trainnig of small entrepreneurs through a three-step deveopment model:
Teaching fundamentals of business through two courses--sector-specific basic and advanced business skills, including the devevelopment of a business plan for each participant; Providing about 4 months of free consulting assistance from a team of tutors, who are business and engineering students; and Financing of projects through partner micro-finance organizations.

In three years, AE has trained a total of 540 businessmen and women, principallly in the municipalities of La Florida and San Muguel, Chile, as well as 50 in Peru since the establishment of a branch of AE in Lima. The Inter-American Development Bank selected AE as one of the top 40 social projects for youth in LAtin America.