ECOFILTRO

Manufactures and sells ceramic water filters in Guatemala providing its users cost-efficient drinking water with improved health outcomes. It also impacts the environment positively as urban customers normally drinking bottled water reduce their plastic consumption, and rural customers who typically boil their drinking water over wood fires reduce their firewood use. Beneficial Returns made a $225,000 loan in 2018 and a $250,000 loan in 2022 for the business to grow their factory and acquire production equipment. EcoFiltro and its CEO were recognized in 2012 by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship.