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In response to the need to increase food supply and family income for extremely poor families living in the PANACAM Park and inside the coffee growing regions of La Libertad, Ojos de Agua and Lajas , Proyecto Aldea Global started a small micro credit program in 2001, to provide alternative income to these families. The program strategy consists in training women and their children to manage small income generation projects (cows, pigs, goats, chicken, fish and bees).
The families learn to produce the animals’ food, to build breeding facilities and finally to market their products. Once the beneficiary families reproduce the first female offspring these are then passed to another family in need, to repeat the process.
During 2008, PAG’s small projects benefited 105 families distributing 40 pigs for meat, 30,000 tilapia fishes, and 1427 chicken. PAG also implemented 36 training workshops to teach the selected families about family nutrition, management of animal projects, animal food preparation, and other issues related to the management of the species.
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