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Argentina |
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Ecumenical Fund for Support to Small Projects, Centro Regional Ecumenico de Asesoria y Servicio (CREAS), Buenos Aires |
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$75,000 |
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In partnership with Self-Development, this organization adheres to Self-Development criteria and guidelines in allocating resources throughout Argentina. (2001) |
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Brazil |
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Coordenadoria Ecumenica de Servico (CESE) Intermediary Partnership for the Small Project Fund, Salvador-Bahia |
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$300,000 |
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In partnership with Self-Development, this organization adheres to Self-Development criteria and guidelines in allocating resources throughout Brazil. (2001) |
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Boliva |
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Women Association for Development |
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$20,000 |
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This group organized itself to purchase bakery equipment and provide training in the areas of the bakery process and sales strategies. Utilizing the bakery equipment will enable the group to increase production and result in increased income for the group members and their families thus improving their living conditions. (2006) |
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Chile |
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Arca del Pacto Home Committee, Tenuco, Cautin |
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$26,000 |
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Several families formed the Arca del Pacto Home Committee to find and purchase land to construct homes to live in. The families could not afford to purchase land individually but by joining together to purchase the land, the Chilean State government will build the homes with no annual payment for 20 years. (2005) |
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Indigenous Community “Maria Yaupe,” Paicavi Chico, Arauco |
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$9,455 |
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This project involved construction of greenhouses to produce vegetables in order to provide income for several families. The project will also help improve the diet of children and the elderly and train members of the community in income producing vegetable production. (2005) |
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Colombia |
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Koinonia Sustainable Farm |
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$20,000 |
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A group of 14 people came together to work on this project which involves sustainable farming including poultry breeding, cultivation of vegetables, crops, fruit bearing trees and worm compositing. The project will benefit both the group members and their families economically. (2006) |
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Ecuador |
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Chimbenas Women’s Association in Action, San Jose de Chimbo, Bolivar |
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$5,885 |
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This micro-business will help this community better utilize their skills and experience in making dresses and handicrafts. With the purchase of at least three sewing machines, they are now able to make and sell work, sport and bed clothes. (2004) |
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Association of Social Participation Los Purahaes |
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$20,000 |
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Many indigenous poor from the agricultural communities of the Riobamba area have moved to larger cities for economic reasons. Construction of a building for association members will provide educational and cultural services to the community. Indigenous craft sales to tourists will support the Center and provide income for the members. After completion of the building the group plans to install weaving machines provide veterinarian services, training in community development and opportunity recovery of ancestral Purahaes culture for youth. (2005) |
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Kichiwa Indian Artist Association |
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$20,000 |
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This is a project focused around ecotourism that integrates the experiences of the visitor with the daily lives and traditions of the native people of Ecuador. The project involves textile weaving and is self-sustaining and generates desperately needed income. (2006)
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Peru |
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Quintay Peasant Community |
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$20,000 |
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This project involves the construction of a micro hydro power plant for a region with 1,080 people. They need the electricity to develop their peasant community, develop new jobs, improve their children’s education and for use in their houses and work places. |
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Producers Association from Santa Barbara, Peru |
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$22,000 |
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This group from the province of Huancavelica, one of the poorest provinces in Peru came together to fight poverty by breeding alpacas in order to create clothes and other products from the fine alpaca wool for sale. The group plans to build a craft center where these clothes can be made and marketed. This project will help to improve the quality of participant lives. (2006) |
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Small Farmers Association "Victor Raul Haya de la Torre", Humaya |
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$27,000 |
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This irrigation project will build and connect channels to other cemented channels in the desert, enabling the farmers to irrigate their land and grow food for their families. (2001) |
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Train Women With AIDS, Lima |
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$11,312 |
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Thirty women living with AIDS have organized to make and sell leather handbags and ceramic crafts, to help care for themselves and their families and buy much needed medication. They also have begun a campaign to educate the community about AIDS. (2001) |
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