Help Guatemalan Women Achieve Self-Sufficiency
Help women and poverty in Guatemala
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.
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More Information About this Project
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
75% of Guatemala’s rural population lives in poverty; most are indigenous people. Lack of resources & education add to high unemployment and recent surges in male emigration to the US leave rural women providing for the family alone. APROSADSE provides women with loans to purchase livestock, trains the women on their care, and guides them through the process of building a successful small business. The animals provide nourishment and income to the families, and empower the women.
Activities
- Provide loans - Guide beneficiaries through business paperwork and loan re-payment processes - Provide trainings on animal/ project maintenance - Provide support through regularly scheduled meetings and visits - Evaluate program effectiveness
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $6,173
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $14,557
Total Funding Goal: $20,731
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 be forced to 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
Communications Director
827 Valencia Street, Suite 101
San Francisco, California 94110
United States
415-824-8384
Email:
Project Sponsor
Organization
APROSADSE
13 Calle A, 6-23 Zona 2
San Martín Jilotepeque,
Chimaltenango
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Guatemala
(502) 7883-0207
http://idex.org/aprosadse.html
APROSADSE's Funded Projects on GlobalGiving
 Expand a Vital Village Store in Guatemala |
 Build a Sustainable Community in Rural Guatemala |
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 November 16, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on February 21, 2007
Latest Update from the Field
The Chi Armira Chicken Raising Project
By Gillian Wilson - Communications Director, November 16, 2009 01:19 PM
In the community of Chi Armira, a group income-generating project -- one you are helping to support-- is raising 600 egg-laying hens. This group of 4 members has been working with this project for a while. They have had challenges with this project because the price of the chicken feed has gone up. They're hoping to sell the hens in 3-4 months to earn income, which they will reinvest in the project.
Thanks to your support, this program continues to offer communities a critical opportunity to enhance community’s nutrition, develop agroecology skills and improve income for their families.
Want to support this project's continued work? 
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