LEAP: Leadership and Education to Abandon Poverty
SummaryAgros purchases land identified by families who then earn the land through crop production. Agros also provides leadership and educational training to enable the families to cultivate new lives.
How Donors Like You Helped
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Land is a precious commodity throughout the world. Disenfranchised rural families lack access to the kind of credit needed to buy their own land. Trapped in a cycle of basic survival, rural families pay exorbitant rents for poor quality land or work for desperately low wages as migrant laborers. As a result, four million Guatemalans live below the poverty line, earning less than the equivalent of US $1-2 per day. Only 15% of children in the rural areas complete elementary education.
Activities
LEAP trainers work with Agros families as they realize their community plans for attaining basic food security, adequate housing, adequate income and education for their children.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $218
Funding Information
This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.
Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $218 . The original project funding goal was $50,000.
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
Agros’ LEAP program provides the leadership and educational training families need as they begin to cultivate the land they now own by title.
Project Message
We see a radical change in these families’ lives once they move onto their land. Enabling farmers to earn land enables them to rediscover their dignity.
- Mario Morales, Director of Agros Guatemala
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Mario Morales
Director of Agros Guatemala
Fundacion Agros
2 Ave. 9-58 Zona 9
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Guatemala
011-502-360-7449
Email:
Project Sponsor
Organization
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 
Guatemala
and can also be found under 
Education.
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 6, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on June 1, 2004
