Strengthen 60 Women Farmers in El Salvador

It has been more than two years since we started this wonderful project that has helped more than 60 women in the communities of Bajo Lempa and Bahía de Jiquilisco. We are excited to report that we have met our fundraising goal and despite many challenges, thanks to your generous support.

• 40 women are raising Creole chickens that provide eggs and meat for their own families as well as allowing families to sell healthier eggs at a fair price to their neighbors.

• 10 women and their families produced a corn harvest adapted to the conditions of climate change.

• 2 families improved their irrigation systems to support the production of grains and fruits.

• 12 women are implementing family vegetable gardens with the support of their families to grow healthier vegetables.

• More than 400 families have benefited from the improvement of the drinking water systems project in Puerto Parada, Usulután.

• More than 30 women have been trained in agroecological production to promote resilience and food security.

• Nearly 200 producers have participated in selling their products at organic markets and native seed exchanges.

This support has also strengthened our organization to be able to continue other key institutional activities including sea turtle conservation, ecological restoration of mangroves, and capacity building of leaders in the Bajo Lempa and Jiquilisco Bay.

We consider all of you as part of these amazing accomplishments and we invite you to continue supporting this program through the follow-up project Extend Resilient Women-led Farming in El Salvador. Please also share it with your friends so that they can be part of these initiatives that come from the communities.

With much appreciation,

Carmen Argueta

President of the MangroveAssociation

It's been a great year for women and their families in El Salvador. The project has already helped about 60 women and their families, but we want to keep supporting more families.

For 2024 we want to focus our program on resilience because this is a strategy to respond to any issue that comes from natural phenomena or inequalities. We have the same energy to work with the communities even there are events like the COVID-19, which was a challenge and a learning process for us.

Some of you are also supporting the whole program of our organization, which has helped us to save more than 116,000 neonates of sea turtles, restored about 6 hectares of mangroves, promoted agroecology as a response to climate variations, and broadcasted a community radio station to disseminate community activities and educational programs, and leadership training.

We want to keep doing the same and improve the resilience of the community.

Happy New Year!

With Love from El Salvador

Links:

• Here is a video of how we work with farmers!