Project Report
| Jul 28, 2011
Investing in Rural Communities and their Local Solutions
By Gillian Wilson | Project Leader
EduPaz has enjoyed great success with its Agroecology Program, which has helped boost food production and generate income for indigenous Mayan communities in rural Chiapas. EduPaz is now moving forward with its holistic approach to continue to build and strengthen local economies through their unique Economic Solidarity Program.
They are taking momentous steps to further ensure growth and success of each program by focusing their efforts on the following:
- Strengthening the organizing skills and training for community leaders
- Promoting agroecology with microcredit groups, taking advantage of the sustainable agriculture demonstration plots so community members can then go on to replicating practices and knowledge in their communities, reaching many more people.
- Highlighting focus on groups of women and youth and integrating them more in the processes
- Motivating and building awareness in the community with various popular education tools such as film, murals, dialogues with other leaders, teachers, local authorities and religious leaders
It is through generous contributions that organizations such as EduPaz can continue to invest in rural communities and their local solutions to sustainable development. Donate today and you will enhance and accelerate EduPaz's success of creating sustainable futures for Mayan communities!
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Apr 27, 2011
Wholistic Programming and Bringing Back Indigenous Practices
By Gillian Wilson | Project Leader
Thank you for your generous donations to this project. EduPaz works with indigenous farmers in Chiapas to increase the use and knowledge of green agro-technologies. This means introducing new methods, such as vermi-compost, but also bringing back some of the indigenous knowledge that has waned in the face of government subsidies for industrial methods. Part of EduPaz’s programmatic structure, and one reason it is such an effect program, is it’s wholistic approach to education and development. It’s group processes requires that community economies through microcredits include agroecological practices, skill-building and learning, organizing and participation, gender equity and process of inclusion of all community members. Now that’s what we call sustainable!
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Feb 3, 2011
Empowerment Means Farmers Take Ownership of Project Development
By Gillian Wilson | Project Leader
Your generosity has funded the building of three sustainable agricultural demonstration plots. These areas are maintained and organized by community group members, who decide what to grow and which practices are appropriate for their land. The plots are also used to educate groups. For example:
- Demonstrations are held for producing organic fertilizers, growing vegetables, worm composting, the cultivation of oyster mushrooms, how to utilize water filters and improved wood-saving stoves.
- In Buenavista Pachán, the group watched a movie about pesticides and their harm on community health – it was followed up with a discussion that motivated a group of tomato farmers to practice organic tomato farming in one of their own greenhouses.
Increasing the knowledge of traditional and sustainable methods of agricultural production supports marginalized communities and strengthens the local economy.
Thank you for donating to this project, helping EduPaz continue to educate and empower rural farmers.
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