Help Improve Food Security for Farmers in Southern Honduras

Honduras struggles as the second-poorest country in Central America. But a Heifer project there is improving food security for 2,385 poor farmer families from 80 communities in southern Honduras. This project will focus on farm diversification, agroecological practices, establishment of local markets and values-based training. Where once these families had to subsist on meager plots of corn, beans and coffee, now they will receive gifts of livestock and seeds. And where there were once no job opportunities, now families will be able to buy and sell food at local markets.

In 2009, a Heifer donor traveled to Honduras on a Heifer Study Tour to see the work of ending hunger and poverty firsthand. This long-time supporter of Heifer and other organizations working in Honduras was moved by what she saw women breaking traditional gender barriers to raise chickens and improve their crops; communities diversifying their farms to improve the soil and increase harvests; farmers learning to farm beneath the forest canopy and preserve forestlands; and families improving their lives through increased income and better nutrition.

After her return, this donor set up a matching grant for the Heifer project in Honduras and gave other Heifer supporters an opportunity to make their gifts go twice as far. While the match has been met you can still give to help complete this project goal.

With Heifer¹s help, families will have the capacity to grow ample amounts of food, have the ability to set up local markets to sell surplus crops, and have increased income from profits they make from the sale of their goods.

What better gift than providing resources to a family in poverty. With help from you our donors, we will now be able to reach twice as many families in Honduras. Gifts to this project were doubled up to $400,000 thanks to a generous donor who was touched by our work.

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