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
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.
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
Total Funding Received to Date: $4,640
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 $4,640 . The original project funding goal was $5,750.
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
Combined with other sources of funding, this project raised enough money to fund the outlined activities and is no longer accepting donations.
Still want to help?
Find another project in
Peru
or in
Economic Development
that needs your help.
Chapel Hill,
NC,
United States
http://nourishinternational.org/
Promote This Project On Your SiteProjects on globalgiving.org undergo compliance checks to ensure they have a bona fide charitable purpose and meet applicable laws relating to international philanthropy. Organizations listed as partners do not necessarily endorse or support any particular project listed on globalgiving.org. The GlobalGiving Foundation is a 501(c)3 organization (EIN: 30-0108263).
GlobalGiving
1023 15th Street, NW, 12th Floor, Washington, DC 20005
Phone: (202) 232-5784 Fax: (202) 315-2558
Contact us
