Agriculture/Food Production Grant

$17.4K USD

Funder	Inter-American Foundation
Recipient Organization	Asociacin de Mujeres Adelina Caal Maqun
Country	Guatemala
Start Date	May 21, 2015
End Date	Oct 18, 2017
Duration	881 days
Number of Grantees	1
Roles	Recipient
Data Source	US Foreign Aid
Grant ID	`48813-36`

Grant Description

Asociacin de Mujeres Adelina Caal Maqun (ACM).

ACM an organization of Mayan women, will work with residents of 20 Q'eqchi' communities to diversify crops, protect natural resources, develop a more reliable food supply and launch a farmers' market.

Forty students will attend ACM's junior high school where they will study academic subjects as well as agricultural practices that they will teach to ACM's members. . The work will benefit 680 indigenous Q'eqchi' directly and another 300 indirectly.