Healthy living and a healthy environment for the coffee community

HEALTHY LIVING AND A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT FOR THE COFFEE COMMUNITY

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN HONDURAS

  • Project Budget: € 21,175

  • Beneficiaries: 50 coffee producing families, living in the La Campa, Lempira area.
    These families are part of the Lenca ethnic group, and are economically and socially vulnerable.

  • Partners: 2

PURPOSE

  • Develop local capacity for healthy homes and healthy families
  • Promote healthy behavior and develop knowledge and skills for self-health care in the family
  • Recover and rehabilitate risk factors in homes
  • Use of the newly planted garden to provide the community with more nutritious food and improve its members' health
  • Provide each family with a concrete kitchen floor, a wood-efficient stove and a water filter

This project was possible thanks to the support of Fundación Amigos del Café, Hesselink Koffie and EFICO Central America/the EFICO Foundation and ran from February 2016 to November 2018.

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