Citi Progress Maker partners featured in The New Yorker World Changers issue

There's Soula Proxenos in Johannesburg, whose work at International Housing Solutions is building safe, affordable housing for rising middle class families. Twenty years after the end of apartheid, the path to wealth through property ownership is still closed to many South Africans. Citi's early support and expertise has helped Soula's idea for the South Africa Workforce Housing Fund come to life, and its success now is being used as a model throughout the continent.

Lima has one of the driest climates in South America, so Peru's water utility Sedepal wanted to bring water from the Andes to the city's nine million inhabitants. Citi worked with them to create a financing system that made it easier to pay contractors and monitor and track expenses. Now construction of the channel is underway, with two treatment plants to follow.

Kirsten Saenz Tobey and Kristin Groos Richmond, co-founders of Revolution Foods, are encouraging better eating habits in the United States by making healthy, delicious food more accessible to school kids and families. With Citi's financial help and guidance the company has grown from a small kitchen in Oakland to 1,000 employees, serving 1.5 million school meals a week, with products available in over 2,000 stores across the country.

And what could be more world changing than the "god particle," the Higgs boson? The Wigner Research Center in Budapest is making sure thousands of scientists worldwide can access and share ideas and complex data generated by supercolliders with their powerful computer resources. They won a highly competitive bid to provide data center services with Citi's backing and financial support. Now Wigner is a valued partner in helping researchers unlock the mysteries of the universe.

For over 200 years, Citi's job has been to believe in people and help make their ideas a reality. Learn more at citi.com/progress.