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Promoting small fishermen to help fight poverty in Esmeraldas

Esmeraldas is a coastal city located in Northern Ecuador, on the border with Colombia. In a city of more than 160,000 inhabitants, basic services, such as medical care, are unattainable for most of its inhabitants. Child malnutrition, families living on less than $1 a day, houses made of boards, or the lack of access to…

Green Microfinance

We promote the financial inclusion of producers and their families, so they make the change in using clean energy and implement actions that mitigate climate change effects on their production and their daily lives. “Green microfinance” adapted to their reality, managing the generated risks.

The solitude and isolation of poverty in Ecuador

The objective is simple and complex at the same time: to organize themselves in a group in order to have more bargaining power and to be able to afford better storage for their milk.

The women’s sugarcane cooperative breaking the chains of discrimination

As in many other countries, poverty in Ecuador is greatest in rural areas. In the province of Chimborazo, Canton Cumanda, 90.09% of the rural population is poor.

Afro-descendant women cacao producers fight against poverty

In Ecuador, the rights of afro-descendant women are systematically violated: their participation in the labor force is reduced by discrimination, their access to property and land is restricted, and their access to basic social services is limited. The situation of Afro-descendant women becomes more dramatic in rural areas, where women perform almost all of the…

A better future for indigenous families, thanks to community-managed rural tourism

Peru offers very attractive places for tourism. It receives thousands of visitors every year attracted by the local natural landscapes and cultural resources. These areas are inhabited by indigenous communities that live in poverty with low levels of human development. For tourists, it is hard to access and contribute economically to these places due to…