During the months of July and August at ViviendasLeón, we took important steps toward food security and empowerment for our beneficiary families. Our farms program in Guatemala began with 10 farms in 2024 and has now expanded by 8 new families and their farms this year.
Steps to Growing Healthy Vegetables Read more
Come celebrate our growing impact in Central America This fall, we’re gathering to celebrate the power of community and the impact we’re making together. With your support, we’re on our way to reaching 100 family farms by the end of 2025, enough to feed 4,000 people and create lasting livelihoods for 85 families in rural
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In Guatemala we work at 7,000 feet where temperatures are cool and variable over the year. To maximize the production and income potential of the small family farms there, we employ hothouses to create very warm environments for key crops including tomatoes and chili peppers that are a staple of the diet.
Hothouses prove successful on farms in Guatemala Read more
In early June four students arrived in Guatemala to begin a series of workshops that would assist the women in our farming program to develop an entrepreneurial approach and mindset to their organic food production. The goal is to create successful approaches to selling the food produced by these women in their community.
Business students develop program for rural women. Read more
My name is Juan Berrios, I live with my wife and daughter Gabriela in Troilo, Sutiava León, Nicaragua. I am 54 years old. Two years ago I graduated from the ViviendasLeón Human Training program and after completing the training I was provided with materials for our family garden. That same year my daughter Gabriela was given a school scholarship, and in 2023 I joined the Troilo Bee Collective, AMHOR.
An Interview with Juan Berrios Read more
Since December 2022, I have had the wonderful opportunity to work with a group of women from “Los Planes” and “Paxub’” communities in the municipality of Santa Lucía Utatlán, Sololá, Guatemala, empowering them on various topics that are key to their personal and collective development.
My Work Experience at ViviendasLeón Read more
ViviendasLeón in Nicaragua held a day of activities to recognize the work of our sustainable agriculture program on New Year’s Eve, 2024. In the event, we had the participation of our farmers, who enthusiastically and with a happy heart participated in each of the games. In them, we talked about the experiences learned in the outgoing year, and the various challenges, climate included, that affected or influenced vegetable production.
Celebrating a Successful Year in Farming Read more
2024 will remain in our memory as the year in which we planted not only seeds in the ground, but also in the hearts of the families that are part of ViviendasLeón. This year, with enthusiasm, we inaugurated our Garden program, a dream that became a reality thanks to collective effort, passion for change and commitment to our community.
Harvesting Hope in Guatemala Read more
Recognizing the interrelated causes of poverty and lack of psychological support for women in rural communities, ViviendasLeon has worked with rural women, contributing to their empowerment and to eliminating their emotional and economic vulnerabilities through social-emotional and capacity training…
An Interview with Reyna Torres Read more
Doña Cristina, has been a single mother with two daughters for many years. She participated in our Capacity Training program in 2023, graduated, and then began creating her garden near her house. After learning the basics of vegetable farming while including her two children in that process, she harvested her first crops in October…
Cristina Yac: A new beginning Read more
This month in our Newsletter – Interviews with Juana Chamorro of Guatemala and with Karla Galeano of Nicaragua.
Newsletter September-October 2024 Read more
In 2015 Karla Galeano joined the capacity training program, learning about the value of education and women’s rights, leadership, gender equality and better ways to raise children. She became empowered, and capable of holding difficult conversations with her peers…
An Interview with Karla Galeano Read more
