The article focuses on the cultural grants program of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Cultural Center in Latin America. Hot air balloons and a traditional festival in the town of Alegria, El Salvador were some of the IDB-financed projects. In Asunción, Paraguay, young people learned to perform their own traditional music through a grant. The small cultural development grants of IDB are said to support and promote cultural diversity like the introduction of traditional games to children in Quito, Ecuador.