Help 100 communities adapt to climate change

Dear Friend,

Thank you for supporting this vital work to fight the effects of climate change in Central America. With your support, the grassroots organizations we partner with continue to bring together their communities and build leaders who are capable and ready to address problems like food and water insecurity, environmental degradation, and natural disasters. 

With your support last year, we brought together hundreds of community leaders and conservation practitioners from El Salvador, Honduras, and Panama to learn new technology for improved ecosystem monitoring and data collection. Community-run hatcheries incubated and released thousands of endangered sea turtle hatchlings, and we improved the food security of over 100 families in Honduras through sustainable agriculture programs. All of this becomes possible when grassroots leaders are able to drive the programs their communities need most.

Leaders like Rigoberto, who works with our partner The Mangrove Association, dedicate their time to organize, educate, and protect their communities in the face of increased natural disasters due to climate change. Rigo, like many of the leaders we work with, is part of a volunteer Civil Protection Committee that works as a response team to train, alert, and evacuate community members during severe floods and storms. While the Salvadoran government allows these groups to form, they do not provide any financial support to keep the programs running. That’s where you come in - your contributions help essential initiatives like these save lives and create new community leaders. 

Thank you so much for supporting programs that honor the resilience and strength of Central America.

We look forward to sharing more about leaders like Rigo with you very soon!

Sincerely,

The EcoViva Team

Links:

• https://ecoviva.org/thank-you-for-supporting-ecoviva-in-2019/