Help Guatemalan Women Achieve Self-Sufficiency

Summary

Guatemalan women and their families will receive loans, training, and support necessary to start small businesses and achieve long-term economic stability and self-sufficiency. progress report read updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

75% of Guatemala’s rural population lives in poverty; most are indigenous people. Lack of resources and education and recent surges in male emigration to the US leave rural women providing for the family alone. APROSADSE provides women with a pathway out of poverty with loans to purchase livestock, trains the women on their care, and guides them through the process of building a successful small business.

Activities

The project will provide loans, guide women through business paperwork and loan re-payment processes, provide trainings on animal/ project maintenance and provide support through regularly scheduled meetings and vets visits.

Funding Information

This project has been retired and is no longer accepting donations.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Women can provide regular nourishment for their families, enabling more children to attend and graduate from school. More resources will flow into rural communities, and fewer people will migrate to cities or the US.

Project Message

My great hope in life has been to be able to pay for my children’s education- for their future- and APROSADSE’s cow-raising project has helped me to do that, and has provided milk for our consumption.
- Patrociña Cristal Ventura, Project participant - cow-raising program

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Gillian Wilson,
IDEX Latin America Program Director
827 Valencia Street, Suite 101
San Francisco, California 94110
United States
415-824-8384
Email:

Project Sponsor

IDEX (International Development Exchange)

Organisation

APROSADSE
13 Calle A, 6-23 Zona 2
San Martin Jilotepeque, Chimaltenango na
Guatemala
(502) 7883-0207
http://idex.org/aprosadse.html

Learn more about APROSADSE and the project team.

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Guatemala and can also be found under Microfinance.

For more information about Guatemala, read the Human Development Report on Guatemala or the Wikipedia entry for Guatemala.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on January 08, 2012.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on February 21, 2007.

Latest Update from the Field

Health Initiatives Empower Women

By Gillian Wilson - Project Leader, April 27, 2011 12:14 AM

APROSADSE’s initiative to work with traditional midwives helps empower women. Many women in indigenous communities are wary of modern medical institutions or lack access to effective care. Midwives have been instrumental to community health and continue to be.

APROSADSE provides midwives with minor surgery equiptment and medical supplies and ongoing training. With contributions from generous donoers, 65 kits were assembled in San Martin Jilotepeque and distributed to each of the midwives.

In addition, 30 women are training as Nutritional Conselors for communities in need. Since women are often limited in their access to good nutrition, especially as new mothers, these Counselors will be instrumental in educating families and women.

Thank you for your generous contributions. Initiatives like this one depend upon them.

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