Summary
Provide 50 Kichwa artisans with workshops and training to start a handicrafts business and earn steady income. This will allow conservation of the rainforest and the Kichwa lifestyle in Chipaota, Peru
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Nourish-Austin will build a workshop and train Kichwa women in business skills to ensure steady income from traditional handicrafts. There are 1,300 people in the Mushuk Llacta de Chipaota tribe depending on unsustainable rates of Piassaba fiber harvests for crafts from the rainforest. They face over 50% malnutrition in the community and travel long distances to find the Piassaba tree because of deforestation.
Creating the plant nursery will allow the Kichwa to harvest fibers from there instead of in the Rainforest. The workshop and business training will generate steady income and help fight malnutrition with better food.
Total Funding Received to Date: $4,490
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $1,260
Total Funding Goal: $5,750
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
Generations of Chipaota Kichwas will benefit. The businesses can be expanded as the population needs. The rainforest conservation plan is responsive to the needs of the community and the forest. It does not hurt one or the other at any point in time.
“You’ve planted that seed in your country and now it is giving fruit. We have work.”
- Mushuk Llacta de Chipaota, Elementary School Teacher
Suchisima Pahi
International Projects Director
Nourish International
109 N. Graham Street Suite 203
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
United States
919-338-2599
Email:
University of Texas - Austin Chapter, Nourish International
109 N. Graham St. Suite 203
Chapel Hill,
NC
27516
United States
919-338-2599
http://nourishinternational.org/
This project is located in Peru and can also be found under Economic Development.
For more information about Peru, read the Human Development Report on Peru or the Wikipedia entry for Peru.
This project was last updated on July 23, 2010.
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on February 12, 2010
By Suchismita Pahi - International Project Director, June 16, 2010 11:59 AM

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