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About ViviendasLeón
Read more: About ViviendasLeónViviendasLeon was founded in 2003 to create solutions to the interconnected causes of rural poverty in Central America. Our mission to “empower and equip rural families to be the agents of their own development” has shown time and again that people are willing and capable to…
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Newsletter September-October 2024
Read more: Newsletter September-October 2024This month in our Newsletter – Interviews with Juana Chamorro of Guatemala and with Karla Galeano of Nicaragua.
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An Interview with Karla Galeano
Read more: An Interview with Karla GaleanoIn 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…
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An Interview with Juana Chamorro
Read more: An Interview with Juana ChamorroJuana Chamorro and her husband Crino live in Los Planes with 3 of their 8 children. In 2023, when she began workshops in ViviendasLeon’s training program, she demonstrated a capacity for leadership, collaboration and responsibility among her 20 cohort members.
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Newsletter July-August 2024
Read more: Newsletter July-August 2024This month in our Newsletter – Learn more about ViviendasLeon and its successful programs in Guatemala and Nicaragua. Sign up for a school travel program in Guatemala in the Mayan Highlands.
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Immersion for Schools in Guatemala 2025
Read more: Immersion for Schools in Guatemala 2025Travel with ViviendasLeon to Guatemala in 2025. On this immersive journey, experience Guatemalan cultures, languages and histories in the center of the Mayan Highlands region, Lake Atitlán.
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Women looking to the future: A Cooperative in La Gallina
Read more: Women looking to the future: A Cooperative in La GallinaDuring the implementation of our HCT program in 2023, a third of the 20 women in the program had founded a cooperative two years previously. They named it CoopEMEGA, an acronym for Cooperative of Entrepreneurial Women Managing Alternatives and Solutions. This group produces chili based condiments…
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Newsletter May-June 2024
Read more: Newsletter May-June 2024This month in our Newsletter – Meet our newest team member, Yamileth Alonzo. She directs our farming program and is a professional agronomist. Also meet Abigail Benavidez, one of our newest women farming in Nicaragua.