When Santiago “Santi” Castillo’s mother, Socorro, came to America in the 1990s, she brought with her a dream of one day owning her own business. Over the years, that dream would evolve from pushing a fruit cart, to running a fruit stand, to opening her own brick-and-mortar storefront: Las Delicias ICT, a small juice and ice cream shop situated inside a north Wichita, Kansas, strip mall.
桑蒂说：“从我们到现在到现在的地方，它已经走了很多。”他反思了他妈妈的梦想，此后成为家庭的梦想。“我们正在同时学习。我们所有人都必须退后一步，即兴即兴地进行学习。”
With two years of experience working as a product control analyst with Koch Minerals and Trading, Santi has been able to take the skills and knowledge he’s gained as a Koch employee and apply some of the company’s基于市场的管理™原理他的家人经营拉斯delicias的方式。但是，Koch间接地对Castillo家族的小型企业产生了另一种方式，这是通过公司与Empower Evergreen。
授权常青是一个非盈利性组织launched in 2021 with a mission to provide educational programming, workforce development, life skills training, guidance and support to small businesses within Wichita’s North End Hispanic community – businesses just like Las Delicias. For Santi, working with Empower Evergreen is a mutually beneficial opportunity to better learn how he and his family can take their business to the next level. But it’s also a platform through which he can offer up his own experience and background as a resource for others.
“We’re in an area where the poverty rate is a little bit higher and a knowledge gap (exists) when it comes to different business practices in general,” says Santi. “I think this is going to help bridge that gap, letting people know that there are organizations, loans and different resources they can use to start their dreams and become successful.”
随着拉斯delicias的不断增长，卡斯蒂略一家人对最终的梦想也是如此。作为一名企业家，Socorro现在看到了一个未来，该业务可以在整个城镇和整个堪萨斯州进行扩展，因为她的北威奇托店面仍然是西班牙裔社区的固定装置。因为那个社区是今天拉斯葡萄的原因。
桑蒂说：“我们已经说了很多次，这只是开始。”“我们想回馈比什么都重要 - 回馈我们的社区并继续发展 - 因为我们的社区将我们带到了现在的位置。我们还希望继续扩展并在其他企业可以仰望的北侧建立一个机构。”
Hear more from Santi and Socorro in this episode ofThe Picture, a Koch Industries Spotlight Series讲述了科赫家乡威奇托，堪萨斯州威奇托的励志故事。