Help Guatemalan Women Achieve Self-Sufficiency

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.

What is the issue, problem, or challenge?

75% of Guatemala’s rural population lives in poverty; most are indigenous people. Lack of resources and education and recent surges in male emigration to the US leave rural women providing for the family alone. APROSADSE provides women with a pathway out of poverty with loans to purchase livestock, trains the women on their care, and guides them through the process of building a successful small business.

How will this project solve this problem?

The project will provide loans, guide women through business paperwork and loan re-payment processes, provide trainings on animal/ project maintenance and provide support through regularly scheduled meetings and vets visits.

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 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

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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