Fresno students create app to help Hispanic community

FRESNO, Calif. -- At Patiño School of Entrepreneurship successful Fresno County, students acquisition unsocial and business-focused courses successful their archetypal 2 years.

"In their inferior year, they signifier teams. They volition travel up with antithetic experiments for concern models until they onshore connected 1 that has marketplace potential," said Sean Begen, a teacher.

For Seniors Ryan Arias, Raul Lopez, and Alexis Robledo, their concern thought deed home.

They founded Raices Unidas, a website and soon-to-be mobile app with the ngo of helping the Hispanic Community entree escaped accusation astir fiscal topics.

"We each travel from Latino households, and we person seen firsthand the effects of a deficiency of Latino Financial literacy wrong our community. We decided to make a solution for that request we person each seen," said Lopez.

The solution includes videos and tools successful Spanish connected topics specified arsenic raising your recognition people oregon wherever to put your money.

"We are going to person a catalog page, astir similar a Netflix, for our courses that volition beryllium free. And we volition person a assemblage leafage to interact one-on-one," Lopez explained.

Sean Begen says he's arrogant of his students and their vision.

"I americium precise impressed with what they person been capable to do. The enactment they person done down the scenes has truly shown their perseverance to flooded immoderate of the challenges they had astatine the opening of the year," said Begen.

Begen encourages his students to network, and they did precisely that by gathering with the Fresno Area Hispanic Foundation successful October.

Yery Olivares says the Foundation is impressed with the concern and the students' passionateness for helping Latinos and has provided a $2,000 grant.

"It was beauteous to spot that they took it upon themselves to beryllium the mediators. We are looking guardant to seeing wherever it's going to lead. They are young innovators," said Olivares.

After graduation, these young founders are capable to proceed what they started.

Berger says the aboriginal of the concern depends connected their continued effort.

"We privation to proceed our concern due to the fact that fiscal literacy is important for everyone. It is lacking everywhere," Lopez said.

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