 |
 |
 New Grants
Asociación de Desarrollo Integral Tíneco (ADIT)
$120,015 over three years, to train and provide small loans to 700 members (men and women, small-scale farmers and artisans) for agricultural and small animal production while collaborating with the municipal government to plan, mobilize resources, and implement community projects. The project will increase lo-cal production and incomes, improve health and educational levels, and increase membership in ADIT from 8 organizations and 416 people to 48 organizations and 1,116 people. (GT–255)
Asociación Fundaselva (FUNDASELVA)
$148,786 over three years, to work in alliance with municipal governments, the private sector, and others in 10 communities around the Montañas del Quetzal Biological Reserve. FUNDASELVA will improve the standard of living of 950 small-scale farm families by providing training, technical assistance, and other support to increase their agricultural productivity and natural resources base. FUNDASELVA also anticipates reducing development pressure on the reserve and increasing conservation by the introduction of organic agricultural practices. (GT–257)
Asociación Maya de Desarrollo K’amolon K’iK’onojel (ASOMADEK)
$111,143 over three years, to increase working capital, improve raw materials, expand inter-national and national market outlets, and train its 270 low-income indigenous women members in literacy, business management, and weaving and sewing methods and design. ASOMADEK anticipates increasing the incomes and the educational and organizational capacity of its members in the Sololá community. (GT–258)
Coordinadora Kaqchikel de Desarrollo Integral (COKADI)
$230,674 over three years, to work in alliance with three private sector businesses to improve the production, income, asset base, and health of 935 low-income rural families organized in 40 enterprises in 14 municipalities across central Guatemala. COKADI will provide training, technical assistance, and loans for small amounts of working capital and agricultural supplies to establish 40 small-scale community pig, chicken, and agricultural enterprises. (GT–256)
Empresa de Consultoría en Ecotecnología (ECOTEC)
$179,964 over three years, to work in alliance with municipal governments and the private sector (including Cementos Progreso, Guatemala’s largest cement company) in five regions of rural Guatemala to improve the productivity and natural resources base of an estimated 1,000 small-scale farmers through training and technical assistance. (GT–254)
Fundación para el Desarrollo y Fortalecimiento de las Organizaciones de Base (FUNDE-BASE)
$291,400 over three years, to increase the economic productivity of 255 low-income rural families through training and technical assistance in soil and forest conservation, organic agricultural production, crop diversification, food security, and marketing, and to strengthen seven grassroots organizations with over 1,000 members while working in formal alliance with several of Guatemala’s most innovative indigenous mayors. Training will be accompanied by on-farm practical demonstrations of course material and monitoring of production and cost reduction goals for small-scale farmers in the departments of Quiché, Sololá, Chimaltenango, and Santa Rosa. (GT–253)
www.geocities.com/fundebase/
|
|
|
|
