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Village Update Summer 2008

By Laurie Werner - Program Director, August 27, 2008 07:13 PM

Attached you will find the Summer update for the Agros village of San Diego de Tenago. Every quarter, the Agros U.S. office receives a progress report on each village on topics such as: Community Organization, Land Ownership, Housing and Infrastructure, Community Education and Training, and Sustainable Economic Growth.
Attachments:

San Diego Summer 2008.pdf

San Diego de Tenango Village Update Autumn 2007

By Laurie Werner - Program Director, January 17, 2008 08:38 PM

Attached you will find the Autumn update for the Agros village of San Diego de Tenago. Every quarter, the Agros U.S. office receives a progress report on each village on topics such as: Community Organization, Land Ownership, Housing and Infrastructure, Community Education and Training, and Sustainable Economic Growth.
Attachments:

San Diego de Tenago Autumn 2007 Update.pdf

San Diego de Tenago Summer 2007 Update

By Laurie Werner - Program Director, November 12, 2007 01:17 PM

San_Diego_de_Tenago_Summer_2007_Update.pdf

San Diego de Tenango Village Update Spring 2007

By Laurie Werner - Program Director , August 15, 2007 10:17 PM

Attached you will find the Spring update for the Agros village of San Diego de Tenango. Every quarter, the Agros US office receives a progress report on each village on topics such as: Community Organization, Land Ownership, Housing and Infrastructure, Community Education and Training, and Sustainable Economic Growth.
Attachments:

Spring 2007 Village Update SanDiego El Salvador.pdf

San Diego de Tenango Village Update- Summer 2006

By Laurie Werner - Program Director , December 01, 2006 10:55 AM

Attached you will find the Autumn update for the Agros village of San Diego de Tenango. Every quarter, the Agros US office receives a progress report on each village on topics such as: Community Organization, Land Ownership, Housing and Infrastructure, Community Education and Training, and Sustainable Economic Growth.
Attachments:

San Diego Village Update Autumn 06.pdf

Village Plan for 2007 – San Diego

By Laurie Werner - International Program Manager, August 23, 2006 06:26 PM

Each Agros village lists the development projects that are planned for the coming year in their annual village plan. Attached you will find next year’s plan for the Agros village of San Diego.
Attachments:

Village Plan FY07 San Diego.pdf

San Diego Village Update - Summer 2006

By Laurie Werner - International Program Manager, August 23, 2006 06:26 PM

Attached you will find the summer update for the Agros village of San Diego. Every quarter, the Agros US office receives a progress report on each village on topics such as: Community Organization, Land Ownership, Housing and Infrastructure, Community Education and Training, and Sustainable Economic Growth.
Attachments:

San Diego Update Summer 2006--finished.pdf

San Diego Village Update

By Laurie Werner - International Program Manager, July 31, 2006 09:32 AM

Attached you will find a quarterly village update from the Agros Field in El Salvador. The Agros US office receives quarterly progress reports on each village on topics including: Community Organization, Land Ownership, Housing and Infrastructure, Community Education and Training, and Sustainable Economic Growth.
Attachments:

San Diego Update Spring 2006--finished.doc

Village Updates

By Laurie Werner - International Program Manager, January 19, 2006 11:26 AM

Agros Program Staff in Seattle receive Village updates every quarter from our field staff in Central America. The information they send up gives us an update on each of our villages in the following categories: Community Organization, Land Ownership, Housing & Infrastructure, Sustainable Economic Growth, and Community Education and Training. The information is then put in a format that is easy to read and translated into English. Below are links to 3 Village Updates from El Salvador.
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Story of Cipriano in San Diego de Tenango

By Agros International - , June 15, 2005 12:00 AM

El Salvador
February 2005

Cipriano was one of the founders of the community at San Diego, Tenango, as well as filling the role of Catholic lay leader for many years in the community. In the last couple of years however he fell into a routine of drinking and spending days away from the community and his family. He attended some of the Agros trainings but was not an active participant and maintained a distance from the community’s activities. Then in recent months Cipriano had a major transformation in his life. Agros staff noticed that he began to build a small pond on his land and filled it with water. He has been using this water to irrigate his green pepper, tomato, cabbage, cucumber, and radish plants. He has also begun raising fish in the pond to sell. And on top of all this he is selling snow cones in the community.

When the Agros staff asked him where he got the idea to do this, he answered that he had been paying attention in the Farm Plan* training given by Agros. He has noticed some others working to diversify their crops and income sources, and so decided to imitate it for himself and his family. He has raised his income and now has income year-round with the variety of produce and activities. He has stopped drinking and is becoming an active member of the community again, as well as a greater support to his family. And the Agros staff is sure that he will be a powerful example to the others in San Diego.

*The Farm Plan is a method to help the families plan out their plot of land to decide which crops they will grow at different times of year. The idea is to help them diversify their crops and have crops growing and producing year-round, meaning they would have income year-round and not rely on one or two basic crops that would be susceptible to failure.

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