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 New Grants
Asociación Consejo de Mujeres Mayas de Desarrollo Integral (CMM)
$160,025 over four years, to assist nine low-income rural communities around San Cristóbal, Totonicapán, in improving health conditions. Focusing on the special problems faced by women and small children, CMM will prepare more than 145 volunteer community health trainers, 30 midwives and 10 community pharmacy managers in preventive health care and training methodologies. The community volunteers will teach basic health practices to approximately 19,000 residents of the nine communities and help increase their access to health services. (GT-267)
Asociación Femenina para el Desarrollo de Sacatepéquez (AFEDES)
$199,132 over three years, to improve the income and health of 405 low-income women, increase the leadership capacity of 150 women, and strengthen six community organizations through a program of training, small loans, agricultural and small business development, and regular meetings. (GT-268)
Asociación para el Desarrollo Integral San Antonio Ilotenango El Quiche (ADISA)
$245,445 over three years, to provide training, technical assistance and small loans to 150 small-scale farmers in six communities in Quiche's municipality of San Antonio Ilotenango: Chuichop, Chocojá, Patzalá, Chiaj, Chotacaj and Chujip. The project will increase residents' income, improve their health, and strengthen natural resources by diversifying local agriculture, identifying better markets, expanding their diets, and protecting local soils and watersheds through the introduction of organic agricultural methods and the promotion of new fruit and wood trees. (GT-270)
Asociación Primero de Septiembre (APS)
$180,000 over four years, to establish a loan fund for 450 elderly beneficiaries, administered in partnership with the Retalhuleu branch of the Banco del Nor-Oriente (BANORO), and provide training to enable APS members to establish and improve profitable micro-enterprises. The APS membership will increase the loan fund so that similar opportunities become available to others. (GT-269)
Coordinadora de Asociaciones de Desarrollo Integral del Suroccidente de Guatemala (CADISOGUA)
$300,000 over three years. In coordination with two of its member organizations, CADISOGUA will carry out an integrated program of credit, training, technical assistance and marketing alliances with local companies. As a result of the project, CADISOGUA will increase the income of 900 of its members and the organizational capacity of 11 of its regional associations and 50 community-level development committees. (GT-266)
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