SummaryMADRE is working with Wangki Tangki to provide urgently needed food aid to Indigenous families living on the North Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua after Hurricane Ida destroyed this year’s crops.
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The UN estimates that 9 million more people in Latin America will fall into poverty this year, bringing the total number of poor in the region to 189 million. The situation for Indigenous women on the hurricane-prone North Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua is worsening as they struggle to feed their families in the wake of Hurricane Ida, which destroyed a majority of the rice crop. Only 3 out of 438 families in the Kisalaya community along the Coco River were able to harvest their crops this year.
MADRE is supporting Indigenous women in securing access to food and seeds to plant new crops, as well as continuing to train women in small-scale organic farming methods and sustainable livestock management.
Total Funding Received to Date: $275
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $9,725
Total Funding Goal: $10,000
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
Women are able to ensure access to a secure food supply, boost economic self-sufficiency by generating much-needed income for their families and share sustainable agriculture techniques in other communities.
When Hurricane Ida hit, we lost everything. My children are hungry.
- Patricia, Harvesting Hope participant
Irene Lew
Development Assistant
Vivian Stromberg
Executive Director
New York, NY 10001
United States
(212) 627-0444
Email:
MADRE, An International Women's Human Rights Org.
121 West 27th Street #301
New York,
NY
10001
United States
212.627.0444
http://www.MADRE.org
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This project is located in
Nicaragua
and can also be found under
Disaster Recovery.
For more information about Nicaragua, read the Human Development Report on Nicaragua or the Wikipedia entry for Nicaragua.
This project was last updated on December 9, 2009.
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on November 25, 2009
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