Let's Get to Work

Jul 11

Let’s get to work folks! So much has been happening recently with our Farming for the Future Program! Take a look and see what’s changed!

Thanks to the logistical and financial support provided by our friends and colleagues from the American Friends Service Committee, we were able to record a video describing the experience of two families within our Program!

These past few months have been extremely exciting for us! Besides the video the American Friends Service Committee we have been putting on many agroecological workshops, had members of the board visit the community, received many donations, and worked with many outside partners!

April started out very exciting as two families, the Garcia and Servellon, received a delivery of chicks to provide eggs and fresh meat!

We began the month of May by reaching out and making connections with other communities and other individuals throughout the area. On the 16th, the members of the Farming for the Future Program shared their experiences with families of the La Canasta Campesina Cooperative to encourage families in both communities to continue harvesting their food through processes that are friendly to life and the environment.

Later that month, Luis Aguillon of the Clean Water for the World Foundation, the Center for Exchange and Solidarity (CIS) and Caminos de Accion, were able to donate 11 families with individual water filters with which they will have access to consume adequate and clean water!

The photos below document the meeting with the members of the La Canasta Campesina Cooperative and the meeting with Luis Aguillon!

In June, we received donations of mango bakery plants, percicio and Indian lemons, oranges, cocoa, mandarin and others! We also we visited the Finca Los Delfines in the municipality of San Emigdio in the department of La Paz. During this time, we worked with Jose Aparicio to learn the process of the harvest cutting and processing cocoa and coffee. Jose Aparicio shared his desire and knowledge and motivated all participants to achieve the desired goal and to look for other environmentally friendly survival alternatives for the families of Los Tehuistes.

Iris Aragon member of the Board of Action Paths, made a visit to the Los Tehuistes community in order to know firsthand the initiatives that are being developed, also made a visit to the homes and families of some scholarships, ta mien visit some orchards and a farm of fattening chickens of Lovato spouses, which have been benefited at the beginning of the year with this good and today is in full production of these birds.

Check out all these photos below of the donations, the visit to Finca Los Delfines, and the visit from Iris Aragon!