FURALCAMP: Generating Income in Rural Colombia

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FURALCAMP: Generating Income in Rural Colombia

	Summary A pilot program that seeks to bring workers and former peasant families into integrated services, in order to prevent the exodus to the big cities.

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

The program helps to generate employment for all family members, combating problems such as juvenile delinquency, prostitution and drug addiction. To implement our plans we require a "Seed Capital," which enables us to buy land, settle educational programs, perform infrastructure works and develop production projects. The people who the project benefits are retired workers, elderly and unemployed peasants, and families displaced by political violence.

Activities

This project aims to organize a pilot village in the rural zone of the municipality of Viotá, with the participation of 100 families, including those who have been displaced by the lifting of tariff barriers and political violence.

Funding Information

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

Funding Policy: partial (Retired)

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

The project will re-educate and re-adjust 100 familes to rural life in individual and collective schemes covering housing, employment and food production.

Project Message

After being forced off my land due to political violence, I now organize the program “Return to the Countryside” to set up a model for a better level of life for elderly people and poor peasants.
- Libardo Ariza Naranjo, Program Director