SAFE DRINKING WATER AT HOME

WATER FILTERS TO IMPROVE WOMEN COFFEE GROWERS’ EMPOWERMENT IN GUATEMALA

  • Project Budget: € 10,000

  • Beneficiaries: 275 beneficiary families
    in the Departments of Quetzaltenango,
    San Marcos, Sololá, Guatemala,
    Santa Rosa, Jutiapa and Alta Verapaz

  • Partners: 4

PURPOSE

  • Improve the health of rural households by educating women as the first and foremost step needed to develop rural Guatemala
  • Decrease the number of preventable generic diseases in households (such as infantile diarrhea)
  • Improve the social and economic situation of the rural household

This project was possible thanks to the support of Mujeres en Café Guatemala, Bombagua, Funcafé, Hesselink Koffie and EFICO Central America/the EFICO Foundation and ran from March 2013 to June 2015.

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