Support Sustainability for Nicaraguan Farmers

Summary

Supporting the Agros villages of Nicaragua will enable families to increase their incomes through various economic and agricultural projects. The families can then buy the land that they are working. progress report read updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Land is a precious commodity throughout the world. Marginalized rural families lack access to the kind of credit needed to buy their own land. Trapped in a cycle of basic survival, they pay exorbitant rents for poor quality land, or work for desperately low wages as migrant laborers. Agros restores hope and opportunity for such families in Nicaragua by purchasing farmland, providing agricultural training, and much more. Families pay back the cost of the land, proudly earning right to its title.

Activities

Agros offers families the opportunity to earn land over time through the fruits of their own labor. This year they plan to plant green peppers, plantains & watermelon, raise chickens, rabbits & goats, & hold workshops on gender issues & cooperation

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: £3,037
Remaining Goal to be Funded: £17,325
Total Funding Goal: £20,362

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

The Agros model works to ensure economic, environmental, organizational, and social sustainability. Sustainability is not only key for the villagers, but for the long-term and integrated approach that addresses these issues.

Project Message

About a year ago, a friend of ours introduced us to Agros…From that moment forward our lives changed. Agros gave us hope to realize our dreams. Today we have land and a desire to overcome.
- Rosa del Carmen Medina, Villager, Norwich, Nicaragua

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Cathy Reilly,
Direct Marketing Manager
2225 4th Ave
2nd Floor
Seattle, WA 98121
United States
(206) 528-1066
Email:

Project Sponsor

Agros International

Organisation

Agros International
2225 4th Avenue Suite 200
Seattle, Washington 98121
United States
206-528-1066
http://www.agros.org

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Where this Project is Located

Country

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

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

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on December 27, 2011.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on January 11, 2005.

Latest Update from the Field

Update: Sustainability for Nicaraguan Farmers

By Cathy Reilly - Marketing & Communications Manager, December 27, 2011 02:46 PM

We are so grateful for your continued support of our communities in Nicaragura! You can also access this update on the Agros International website at http://www.agros.org/ag/villagepdfs/FuturodelManana.pdf.

We are sharing with you the Summer 2011 update for Futuro del Mañana, which is exceptional because it will actually be the final report from this community. Thanks to the support of generous people like you, and years of hard work on the part of our families, Futuro del Mañana has reached the point of self-sustainbility and will no longer receive direct support from Agros. Community members even held a land title ceremony to celebrate that most have paid off their land loans and now own the land outright! Though we'll still be keeping in contact with Futuro del Mañana, your funds will go to support other communites in need in Nicaragua. You'll begin receiving information about some of these other communities in future updates, and can begin to chart their progress.

As always, we’d welcome any feedback you may have about these reports. On behalf of the families of Futuro del Mañana, thanks again for your partnership in helping them to escape the cycle of generational poverty in Nicaragua.

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Futuro Summer 2011 Report (PDF)

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