Agros 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.
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.
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.
Agros’ LEAP program provides the leadership and educational training families need as they begin to cultivate the land they now own by title.
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
Total Funding Received to Date: $218
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 $218 . The original project funding goal was $50,000.
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Thanks to 2 donors like you, a total of $218 was raised for this project on GlobalGiving. Combined with other sources of funding, this project raised enough money to fund the outlined activities and is no longer accepting donations.
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