Project Harvest

In Guatemala’s rural “dry corridor” over a million people require food assistance (Oxfam), the result of the global pandemic compounded by years of neglect and the negative impacts of climate change. Project Harvest works with 500 families in this area haunted by hunger. The Project’s permanent program is a development model which provides these families …

2020 By the Numbers – COVID 19 Exposes Need for Pro-Food Policies Read More »

Project Harvest works in 12 communities impacted by COVID 19. The pandemic has exacerbated poverty, malnutrition and discrimination in most rural communities, pushing families into food insecurity as a result of escalating unemployment and the economic disorder caused by the virus. Fragile Family Economies in Collapse “I left, with 10 others, walking three days to …

“Hunger May Kill Us before the Coronavirus” Read More »

Which is your first territory? Is it your home, your neighborhood, your city, your country? Or is it your body? Many campesina women conceive of their bodies as the only personal territory which they have, a territory which, sadly, can be and is violated in many ways. In the poor communities where Project Harvest works …

Our Body Is Our First Territory Read More »

When Project Harvest is invited into a community with its integrated program focused on gardens, rainwater harvesting, organization and training, it is laying down a foundation for a very specific improvement in the well-being of the families of the community. Project Harvest does not and cannot meet all the needs of a community, but at …

2019 By the Numbers- Unanticipated Community Benefits Read More »

Many families ask Project Harvest to implement our integrated program of food security and leadership training in their communities, but once we are on the ground, communities don’t want us to leave! So what is our exit strategy? Our entry to support andaccompany a community is linked to our exit strategy. We want communities to …

From Dependence to Independence – an Entry and Exit Strategy Read More »

  The families with whom Project Harvest works are within the segment of the rural population that is called extremely poor. Under normal conditions, when everything is in balance and when there are no droughts, floods or other natural disasters, families must carry out a seriesof precarious activities in order to survive. Project Harvest empowers …

2018 By the Numbers- Fragile Family Economy Read More »

Yolanda is a resident of Oquen, a community located in the dry corridor of Comotan in Chiquimula. She is a very hard working woman and always takes part in community activities. Although Yolanda is only 34 years old, she has lived a lifetime. She married quite young to Manuel and has 7 children – 4 …

A Day in the Life of Yolanda Read More »

Dear Friends and Supporters, Can we tell you why and how this is a year of “firsts” for Project Harvest? As we write this letter the first delegation to visit the communities where Project Harvest works is preparing to leave for Guatemala. The delegates pay their own way in order to be part of this …

Letter from the Coordinator and Chair- 2017 Read More »

Hunger is a manifestation of the lack of compliance on the part of the State to ensure the right of every person to receive an adequate amount of culturally appropriate food. The “Human Right to Food” holds governments to account for addressing today’s global hunger epidemic, a preventable crisis in which 842 million people suffer …

Food is a Human Right Read More »