Provide Organic Gardens for 20 Indigenous Women

With the help of a grant from the Atkinson Fund, the Kateri Fund Promotor, Candalaria Sut has shown  the women in Chumanzana, Chichicastenango, Guatemala how to implement the ideas they have been receiving in workshops for about a year.  This grant will give the women the tools and capital they need.  

The first step was to provide each woman with the tools  to prepare and tend her garden.  There are pictures attached that show them with their new tools. Having these tools has given them a surge of energy which will animate their work. 

Here are some comments from the women.:

Manuela Velasquez Alba is new to the group.  She is very pleased with her participation.  She said that she was going to take care of each one of her gardens so it would always be green.

Maria Quino Velasquez thanks everyone who has sacrificed to give her the tools and materials to start her garden.  It will benefit her and her whole family.  She will take care of her garden to always be able to eat fresh vegetables.

Dona Catalina Quino will maintain her garden so that she won't need to buy vegetables in the market and can save money.

Sebastiana Och Morales is already benefiting from her garden as she has cilantro growing and doesn't need to buy it.  She will grow vegetables always in her garden and guard it so the chickens don't eat them.

On September 26th, the wmone built the first raised bed with Dona Isabela Morales.  The plan is to build two each week.   The women are working with renewed energy as they see the possibilities ahead!