Education/Training Grant

$52.6K USD

Funder	Inter-American Foundation
Recipient Organization	Associao Comunitaria da Vila de Sao Jorge
Country	Brazil
Start Date	Oct 22, 2016
End Date	Jan 15, 2019
Duration	815 days
Number of Grantees	1
Roles	Recipient
Data Source	US Foreign Aid
Grant ID	`49821-36`

Grant Description

ASJOR will work in the community of Sao Jorge, Goias, to expand the reach of health care that complements conventional medicine by incoporating traditional practices, including the use of medicinal plans indigenous to the Cerrado, a savannah located in the heart of Brazil.

The analysis of the benefits of the plants and the development of a plant nursery and a community health center should benefit 500 Brazilians direclty and another 5,000 indirectly.