By Fernando Adulfo Melo Farrera | Project Leader
The project supported by GlobalGiving has allowed us today to have a municipal civil protection program and to strengthen our resilience capacities in order to better face future phenomena that affect life.
Today we are also working to recover local food production and improve our economy and developing soil, water and natural resource management practices.
In local food production we are working to have stable and diversified plots for the cultivation of corn and beans, to which we have added the cultivation of blackberry in order to obtain economic income and food for self-consumption. In these plots we are working on the remodeling of soils and water management through the construction of trench trenches, bowls and terraces on contour lines designed using the "A" device.
In the coffee growing areas we are diversifying the production of the aromatic by planting cocoa plants interspersed and thus being able to go as far as making chocolate in order to diversify economic income.
At this stage of COVID 19, we are receiving support to take care of our health through information, keeping a healthy distance and increasing sanitary measures such as hand washing. As a measure of solidarity with the poorest women in the community, we have launched a donation campaign with countrymen in Oaxaca, Mexico City, and the United States to support them with pantries, as we are in a season where food grown for family consumption has run out for these families.
The fact that our communities are in a rural area has allowed us a certain isolation with which we have been able to maintain ourselves without COVID19 contagion.
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