[S1 - E3] Banking on children

10/04/19 • 7 min

Adults used to laugh at Jose Adolfo. They hung up the phone or said a child should leave such matters to grown-ups.
They’re not laughing at him now. Jose Adolfo is still just 14 but for seven years he has run his own bank and rubbish recycling scheme in Peru. Now he stars in a French film. It came out in cinemas last week and its message, he says, is this: “You may not know it yet, but we children are saving the world”.

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