Sustainable Nutrition for 823+ Families in Peru

Globe Med worked with Penn State University and raised over $5,000 for projects in Peru. They also flew over two Feed the World/CHOICE Humanitarian staff members to speak at a conference hosted in Guatemala where The CHOICE Humanitarian Leadership Model was presented. We live by the motto, "A hand-up not a hand-out." Families lift themselves out of poverty through the CHOICE model and education.

A year ago we completed a successful project in Frias, Peru and are now starting another project that will include another 300 families. This project is a cooperative project between CHOICE, the local government of Frias, and the regional government  of Piura. The main focus of this project is to teach families the importance of health and nutrition and then with that basis teach them to grow gardens with a variety of vegetables to meet their nutritional needs. Once we have had success in teaching them to grow gardens then we will help them with their crop production. Once they are competent in improving their crop yields and raising a variety of field crops then we will help them to start raising small animals. At the end of this training the families will be totally self sufficient nutritionly and will be able to produce items that they can sell for money that can be used for school fees, clothing, or other family needs.

In addition to this training we will start with Community Development and Leadership training. This training will help the community to know how to work together to improve community wide projects such as schools, health clinics, water and sanitation systems.

Links:

• http://choicehumanitarian.org/