Youth Education and Food Sovereignty in Honduras

Summary

The project will fund a computer lab for the Foundation for Participatory Research with Honduran Farmers and provide computer literacy and journalism workshops for youth.

How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of $1,400 was raised for this project.

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More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

“We have a serious problem,” says Marvin Gomez, Regional FIPAH Coordinator. “The majority of farmers that are participating in [FIPAH’s] activities are 50 or 60 and the productive food system depends on these people.” The Nourish project focuses on engaging the younger generation in FIPAH’s work. Workshops facilitate the sharing of young farmers' research and access to information. The intersection of technology and agronomy is important to the youth growing up in a world of hyper-connectivity.

Activities

Nourish will set up a computer lab and develop workshops on the use of Microsoft Office, Internet literacy, photography, and reporting. We will make the project sustainable by training local youth to continue leading the workshops.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $1,400

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 "Project Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $1,400 .  The original project funding goal was $3,450.

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

Engaging the youth of the community will ensure a lasting commitment to sustainable farming traditions, food sovereignty, and participative research. The community can use the technology to enhance the research and access a new forum for their ideas.

Project Message

“One cannot think that youth are ‘the future.’ They are the present. And as such, we have to reach out to them.”
- José Antonio Jiménez, President of FIPAH

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Anna McCreight
Chapter Leader
Nourish International
109 N. Graham Street Suite 203
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
United States
919-338-2599
Email:

Project Sponsor

Nourish International

Organization

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapter, Nourish International
109 N. Graham St. Suite 203
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
United States
919-338-2599
http://nourishinternational.org/

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Honduras and can also be found under Children.

For more information about Honduras, read the Human Development Report on Honduras or the Wikipedia entry for Honduras.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on July 23, 2010.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on February 15, 2010