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ECONOMIC RIGHTS & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Community-controlled productive endeavors and investment funds, cultural and biological diversity, and sustainable uses of natural resources.

HONDURAS
OFRANEH (Organization of Garifuna People in Honduras). Casave production and marketing. Education and action on land and cultural rights.

CHIAPAS | photo gallery
Mujeres de Maiz Women's Cooperative and Loan Fund in Mayan communities.

Palenque Loan Fund for Mayan women. Autonomous municipalities.

GUATEMALA
ADMI (Maya Ixil Women's Association). Community organizing. Loan fund and education. Chajul, Quiche.

AFQ (Q'eqchi Women and Girls Association). Community and micro-enterprise projects. Izabal.

ASMADIGUA (Mayan Association for Integral Development). Chicken production for internally displaced widows and orphans. Chichicastenango, Quiche.

Rio Squisal Women's Association. Training for women's organizing. Corn mill project. San Sebastian, Huehuetenango.

CCDA (Campesino Committee for Highlands). Land rights, community development training, loan fund, coffee commercialization. San Lucas Toliman, Solola

COMADEP (Meso-America Cooperation for Development and Peace). Commercialization of goods produced in returned refugee communities by women's and men's cooperatives. Peten.

Plan de Sanchez Agricultural Cooperative, in Achi village. Baja Verapaz.

SDEG (Solidarity for Gender Development and Equality). Loan funds for rural communities. Quetzaltenango.

 

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