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Newsletter July-August 2024
This 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. Read More »
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Immersion for Schools in Guatemala 2025
Travel 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. Read More »
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Women looking to the future: A Cooperative in La Gallina
During 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 known as chileros that are popular in homes and… Read More »
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About ViviendasLeón
ViviendasLeon is dedicated to eliminating rural poverty in Central America. Our mission is to empower and equip rural communities to be agents of change. More than 90% of our program members are women, many single mothers who become rural farmers and small businesswomen. Read More »
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Newsletter May-June 2024
This 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. Read More »
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Yamileth Alonzo joins ViviendasLeón Guatemala
We are thrilled to welcome Yamileth Alonzo Zárate, our most recent addition to the Guatemala staff as the Sustainable Farms Program Director. Yami is an agronomist with experience in multiple areas of farming including food diversification and nutrition training, agriculture and business technical training, strengthening food security and resilience training, and disaster preparedness in rural… Read More »
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New sustainable farms established in “La Gallina”
“My name is Abigail Benavidez, I am 30 years old and I live with my husband and three children. I am a housewife and I participate as a volunteer in a parent work group at the La Gallina school. Last year I was encouraged to participate in the Human Training Program that ViviendasLeón taught in… Read More »
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Interview with Angélica García, mother and new farmer
Angélica Epifania García was in our first HCT program in 2023, and now has a new small farm with a greenhouse and open area for row crops. She is 29 years old, married, mother of two children, and lives in Ciénaga Grande, neighborhood adjacent to Los Planes, in the municipality of Santa Lucía Utatlán. Read More »
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Maybeline Chavajay, our Director in Guatemala
Maybeline Chavajay Cotuc began work with ViviendasLeon in late 2022 as our human training program director. During the following six months she had met with and interviewed more than 30 families and launched our first human training program in the Los Planes and Paxub’ communities of Santa Lucia Utatlan. By July she had risen to… Read More »
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Newsletter March-April 2024
This month in our Newsletter – Meet our staff who met in Guatemala to help launch our new farming program there. And learn about our continuing work to improve our training program for rural women. Read More »
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León team helps launch new farms program in Guatemala
“During this first month working for ViviendasLeón Guatemala, I have had the opportunity to visit the women who are our first group of farmers in the communities of Paxub’ and Los Planes. I have noticed the enthusiasm of the women for the new project we are about to start, and the participation and involvement of… Read More »
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Teaching environmental concepts and practical strategies
Our Nicaraguan staff recently organized an activity to present the environmental documentary titled, ”The Planet Needs Us”. We wanted to increase awareness in the community about the need to protect the environment and conserve the soil. This was aimed at girls, boys, parents and the entire community present at the Rubén Darío School in La… Read More »