Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Increase local technical agricultural expertise; create income-generating opportunities through partnership with local sewing collective; and increase women’s leadership through improved ability to contribute resources to family and community needs.

Project Message

"Our family lost our food supply in the 2001 drought. We suffered and went hungry for months. Now, thanks to Harvesting Hope, we are learning to plant and tend a sustainable organic garden."
- Patricia, Harvesting Hope participant

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Jacqueline Zenone,
Development Assistant
121 West 27th Street #301
NY, NY 10001
United States
212.627.0444
Email:

Project Sponsor

MADRE

Organization

Learn more about MADRE, An International Women's Human Rights Org. and the project team.

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Where this Project is Located

Country

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

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 November 19, 2007.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on May 25, 2006.

Latest Update from the Field

Harvesting Hope: Overcoming Hurricane Felix

By Vivian Stromberg - Executive Director, November 19, 2007 09:27 PM

In the past year, Harvesting Hope has held trainings on sustainable agriculture and women’s rights; provided seeds that project participants used to plant community gardens; provided chickens so that families have a reliable source of protein in their diet; helped participants sell their surplus produce, eggs, and meat in local markets; and introduced participants to other Wangki Tangni programs that improve the quality of life for Indigenous families in the region.

This year, the project faced a devastating setback when Hurricane Felix, a Category Five storm, struck the North Atlantic Coast on September 3. Just weeks before collecting the harvest of a bumper year and reaping the rewards of their hard work and newfound knowledge, Indigenous Miskita women saw their crops destroyed by winds, rains, and floods. The Nicaragua Network Hotline reported that 99 percent of the crops in the region were destroyed.

However, Harvesting Hope participants are encouraged by the supply of seeds in their newly created seed bank, and by their knowledge of MADRE’s commitment to support their communities, and have already begun to replant their gardens.

Beneficiaries of Harvesting Hope include over 2,000 Indigenous women and families in the village of Waspam and 104 surrounding communities, as techniques learned in Harvesting Hope trainings are shared with remote communities by project participants. Rose Cunningham, Wangki Tangni’s Director, reports that women from neighboring communities continue to attend Harvesting Hope trainings in record numbers, sometimes walking two or three days to get there, and participants say that the income-generating aspects of the project are helping them come closer to meeting their families’ immediate needs.

Attachments:

• Nicaragua Harvesting Hope Project Update 2007.doc

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