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Guatemala
Construction of a vocational school
Project description:
The San Marcos region of south-west Guatemala is one of the poorest parts of the country. Most families make their living from growing corn and beans on smallholdings, and many of the fathers are also migrant workers in the highland coffee plantations and coastal fruit plantations. Their income fluctuates according to harvest yields and prices on world markets.
Global Care is funding the construction and equipping of a vocational school that is currently being built as part of an existing training center in San Marcos. The idea is to strengthen the region and open up alternatives to working in agriculture by offering training in technical occupations.
The other partner in this project is World Vision, an organization with which Global Care successfully cooperated in 2005 over the reconstruction of 83 destroyed houses in the Indonesian province of Aceh.
Place: Los Diamantes regional development project in San Marcos region, Guatemala.
Status: Project start: January 2008; scheduled project end: February 2011.
Local coordination:
Link: www.worldvision.de
Project description:
The San Marcos region of south-west Guatemala is one of the poorest parts of the country. Most families make their living from growing corn and beans on smallholdings, and many of the fathers are also migrant workers in the highland coffee plantations and coastal fruit plantations. Their income fluctuates according to harvest yields and prices on world markets.
Global Care is funding the construction and equipping of a vocational school that is currently being built as part of an existing training center in San Marcos. The idea is to strengthen the region and open up alternatives to working in agriculture by offering training in technical occupations.
The other partner in this project is World Vision, an organization with which Global Care successfully cooperated in 2005 over the reconstruction of 83 destroyed houses in the Indonesian province of Aceh.
Place: Los Diamantes regional development project in San Marcos region, Guatemala.
Status: Project start: January 2008; scheduled project end: February 2011.
Local coordination:
Link: www.worldvision.de
