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Meet José, Maria Natalia and Erick of XelaTeco
AIDG's incubated businesses not only bring much needed electricity, sanitation and clean water to underserved communities, they also provide transformative economic and career opportunities for their employees. Here is the story of three members of the talented XelaTeco: José Ordonez, Maria Natalia Poz and Erick Gonzalez.
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José Alfredo Ordonez:
José, a brilliant electronics expert, was forced to leave a university electrical engineering program to support his family before joining Xelateco. He is now financing his brothers and sisters university educations. He is the first in his family not to be in a low paying textiles job.
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Maria Natalia Poz: Maria joined Xelateco after finishing a drafting and technical drawing degree as one of the few women in a highly competitive technical school for boys. She had always been interested in mechanical engineering but her family stopped her from studying it. Since joining Xelateco she has excelled in engineering, design and implementation and has become the most skilled metal caster in the shop.
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Erick Mauricio Gonzalez Arreaga: Erick, a mechanical engineer and son of a local university professor of renewable energy systems, had been doing pico hydro electric installations since he was a kid but was stuck in a dead end job bottling beer in a local factory before he came to work with Xelateco.
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