KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER AND QUALITY EDUCATION AS A DRIVER FOR WOMEN SMALLHOLDER COFFEE PRODUCERS AND YOUTH

EMPOWERING WOMEN COFFEE PRODUCERS AND YOUTH IN GUATEMALA

  • Project Budget: € 20,000

  • Beneficiaries: 219 direct beneficiaries

  • Partners: 3

PURPOSE

  • Build empowered women coffee producers and youth for future development via training and knowledge transfer;
  • Implement training topics such as sustainability, adaptation to and mitigation of climate change (reduce emissions and sequester CO2 in agroforestry systems), efficient production practices and health;
  • Improve skills of minimum 100 people by 2020;
  • 55 new youngsters to finish their degree in the “Coffee Bachelor High School program” by 2020;
    this program won the 2017 SCA Sustainability Award
  • Maintain the computer class and elementary school in Nuevo Platanillo to benefit 160 students;
  • Select a group of 4 students with a high motivation and potential to become ‘change agents’ for their communities.
This project was possible thanks to the support of FUNCAFÉ, Nuevo Platanillo Association for Development, Finca El Platanillo/Panorama/Grupo Cotesco and the EFICO Foundation and ran from January 2018 to December 2020.

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