Letizia talks about microfinance with a mysterious tweed dress and a ‘cheat’ on her mobile

This Wednesday, January 15, the Queen presided over the event organized by the BBVA Microfinance Foundation on ‘Seeds for a sustainable future’, in which the transformative role of cocoa and that of small and medium-sized businesses in combating poverty was highlighted. poverty, create jobs and facilitate opportunities and progress for people. Showing off her elegance, Mrs. Letizia rescued a tweed dress from her closet, the designer of which is unknown, and went on stage with her cell phone in her hand.

The wife of Felipe VI has resumed her institutional agenda after saying goodbye to her daughter, Princess Leonor, last weekend in Cádiz aboard the training ship Juan Sebastián Elcano with a sailor look and headband that delighted the most trendy. ‘. On this occasion, the queen has changed her image to accommodate the day’s event, at the Palace of the Marquis of Salamanca, in Madrid.

The royal consort has worn a dress that she debuted last April at the Cervantes Prize ceremony, in Alcalá de Henares, and that is perfect to combat the drop in temperatures in the capital. She has combined it with black low-heeled shoes, matching a mini handbag from Carolina Herrera, specifically the Victoria Insignia Satchel model.

The queen intervened in the event, offering a few words from the stage, which she entered with her mobile phone in her hand, an increasingly common gesture for all those who, like her, have decided to replace paper to embrace new technologies.

During the event, entrepreneurs Marlon Ferreira, Ana Rodríguez and Constantino Blandford shared how cocoa drives economic, social and cultural development in their countries. In Colombia, Peru, the Dominican Republic and Panama, countries where the BBVAMF is present, this crop is a source of income for more than 300,000 people, promotes female empowerment and opens opportunities for family education. In addition, it has played a key role in the transition towards peace in Colombian regions affected by the conflict, where coca cultivation has been replaced by cocoa, known as the fruit of peace.

This change has encouraged the creation of initiatives around this fruit such as agrotourism and global marketing of the product. The event has brought together experts to talk about common challenges that small and medium-sized businesses are facing, such as the arrival of new technological tools and Artificial Intelligence, and cocoa producers to reflect on how small actions can generate big transformations.

The BBVA Microfinance Foundation is a non-profit entity created in 2007 by BBVA within the framework of its corporate social responsibility, to support, with an endowment of 200 million euros, vulnerable people who have small businesses. Since its creation, the entities of the BBVA Microfinance Foundation have supported more than 6 million low-income entrepreneurs through the disbursement of more than 20 billion dollars.