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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
In 2016, Project Harvest widened its program into two new communities, La Ceiba and La Libertad (22 and 33 new families respectively in each community). Families on average have 8 children. Both communities share some characteristics such as the same level of extreme poverty. The topography of the communities is steep (up to 60% slope). …
In July 2015, Project Harvest expanded its work into two new communities, Tunuco Abajo and Oquen. Both communities are extremely poor. A primary reason for this is their geographical location in the heart of Guatemala’s dry corridor. It is here that the effects of climate change have been most severe. Recurring droughts have had a …
I n early January 2014, Guatemala’s daily newspaper, La Prensa, reported that more than 95,000 families were without grain in the ‘Dry Corridor’. The rains did not come in this dry zone and because there was no rain the usual harvest of corn and beans was insufficient or nil. Cyclical droughts are a frequent occurrence …
