LASC funded a small plantain chip production facility in Honduras to create economic opportunity for 8 families. [Read more…]
Archives for 2014
A Garden Of Love
25 desperately poor Guatemalan families received training and tools to set up and maintain a vegetable garden with the funding of the Vegetable Gardens of El Caminero – Totonicapan, Guatemala, [Read more…]
Planting A Better Future
Planting 2,000 fruit tree seedlings in a poor and desperate Haitian village is providing a critical food source to those in need.
Completed July 2014, the development team of Food for the Poor, Inc. identified and created an agricultural project for Titayen, Haiti to aid this poor and desperate village. 2,000 fruit tree seedlings have been planted at the Foundation Montesino! The trees will provide food; replenish the soil and the environment suffering from deforestation; positively impact the nutrition of the children at the school and orphanage; provide a source of income for the orphanage from the sale of fruit; and restore a sense of pride, ownership and hope for the local families charged with the responsibility to care for the trees.
Sewing Up A Brighter Future
The Ingenio Amistad Women’s Baking & Upholstery Sewing Project in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic has remodeled a bakery and provided new equipment to develop an income and food source, as well as, to construct and establish a sewing center. Completed May 2014, initial training has supported new skill development and the women are making bed linens, curtains, and doing furniture upholstery. Advance training is allowing them to be able to produce high quality products and to increase their output. The women are baking and selling their product throughout the community.
Somoto Beekeeping Project – Las Lomas, Madriz Nicaragua
This hardworking community has made great gains in capacity, production, and income!
- The average number of honeycombs the beneficiaries had before the project began was 4.4. Today, the average number of honeycombs has more than doubled to 10.2 honeycombs!
- Before the project, every honeycomb was producing 20.05 liters of honey on average. Since the beneficiaries have been trained, the honeycombs are now producing 27.03 liters of honey –an increase of 34%.
- Prior to the project, the average annual production of honey was 92.2 liters. Now, production averages 281.4 liters, more than triple the original amount.
Beneficiary Testimony: “I have been able to support my home through the sale of honey, and my community sees me as an example. Now, there are many young people interested in beekeeping. I am very satisfied with the project, I feel very well trained and capable to handle my honeycombs and with expertise to share and multiply my knowledge with others.”