Socios En Salud has been recognized as the first winner of the LG Ambassador Challenge 2025 for its project “Ollas Comunes: Sustainable Access to Light and Water for Community Wellbeing in Carabayllo”. The award supports our Social Protection Program (SPP) commitment to food security and sustainable basic services.
The proposal seeks to improve two common cooking pots in the district of Carabayllo that serve 56 mothers, through sustainable solutions that guarantee access to light, water and better food hygiene. More than 130 ollas in the district still operate in precarious conditions, without power, drinking water or adequate equipment to prepare safe food and preserve it properly.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the women-led cooking pots supported thousands of families. Today they face new challenges: high energy costs, lack of refrigeration and water scarcity in high altitude areas. Added to this is the need for adequate infrastructure and technical training on hygiene and food handling.
Thus, the intervention of Socios En Salud includes solar panels, household appliances (refrigerators, blenders, fans), water tanks, infrastructure improvements and technical training. These actions will make it possible to preserve food, prepare safer meals and reduce health risks, especially benefiting children, pregnant women and older adults in vulnerable areas of Carabayllo.
La compañía LG premió una iniciativa del Programa Protección Social (PPS) de Socios En Salud por su iniciativa sostenible.
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Sustainability and community impact: a replicable model
The award to Socios En Salud gives visibility to a model that can be replicated in other vulnerable districts. Its comprehensive and technical approach was valued, which simultaneously attacks the main bottlenecks in the common pots: lack of light, water, equipment, infrastructure and knowledge about food hygiene and resource sustainability.
Ensuring basic services such as light and water is essential for public health. With solar panels and storage tanks, communities reduce their dependence on expensive and unsafe sources. In addition, technical training empowers women leaders and promotes a culture of safe and responsible food.
This award marks a milestone in the cooperation between civil society and private enterprise. LG, through “100 days of happiness”, supports innovative projects that generate impact. Socios En Salud demonstrates that it is possible to create sustainable, culturally relevant and human-centered interventions, even in the most vulnerable contexts.
Carabayllo, one of the districts hardest hit by structural poverty in Lima, becomes an example of how technology, solidarity and community organization can transform realities and build a more dignified and resilient future.
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