In 2002 Plenty International began a new soyfoods and nutrition education project in a partnership with the Huichol Center for Cultural Survival and Traditional Arts located in the town of Huejuquilla in the Jalisco State of southwestern Mexico. The project is designed to increase family access to, and use of, nutritious low-cost food sources, create jobs, provide nutrition and health education, and strengthen food security among low-income Huichol and Mexican and Mexican communities in the region around Huejuquilla. In July 2002, Plenty Soy Technician and nutrition educator, Louise Hagler, traveled to Huejuquilla to begin work on the project and help formulate a plan for “Phase 1.” A professor at the University of Illinois, Randall L. Nelson, who is also the Curator of the Soybean Germ Plasm Collection of the Agriculture Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture donated 100 each of 34 varieties of soybean seed for soybean variety trials on Huichol lands.