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Summer Bulletin 2006
Vol. 22, No.2 |
Introduction
Gulf Coast Hurricane Relief Efforts
Representatives of Four CAFSI Programs Meet in Managua
Visit to Centro Huichol, Huejuquilla, Mexico
Plenty Belize GATE Program
Kids to the Country Celebrates its 20th Anniversary
Kathryn Hutchens, 1949-2006
Representatives of Four CAFSI Programs Meet in Managua
In June, the long-planned “Encuentro” involving all four of the Central American Food Security Initiative programs was hosted by Soynica in Managua, Nicaragua.
Top, from left, Maria and Guillermo Alvarado and their baby. Guillermo is ADIBE’s (Guatemala) manager. To Guillermo’s left is Ana Louisa, Production Manager at Soynica’s Casa Nutrem, followed by Imelda Cruz de la Rosa of the Huichol Center in Mexico, Chuck Haren of Plenty, Agustin, Xoquic from ADIBE, Felipa Barrios from UPAVIM (Guatemala City), and Estreberta Carrillo Santillo of the Huichol Center. Kneeling from left, is Maria Elena Xoquic of ADIBE, Blanca Olivia Cermeno of UPAVIM and Heidi Yolana Castillo of UPAVIM. (photo by Casta Calderon)
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This historic week-long gathering brought together Mayans and Huichols, urban and rural food processors, marketers and nutritionists to teach and learn from each other, compare notes about problems faced and overcome, differing methods of production, successes and failures and hopes for the future.
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Mayans and Huichol CAFSI members attending the Managua workshops are dedicated to improving the nutrition and livelihood of their rural communities.
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A workshop about packaging and marketing dried vegetable products was led by Casa Nutrem staff. (photos by Chuck Haren.)
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The group toured Soynica’s Casa Nutrem advanced production and packaging facility. They attended lectures on nutrition and sanitation. They ate together, danced together, and toured various sites around Nicaragua in a bus rented by Soynica for the occasion.
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Casta Calderon of Plenty talks about principles and methods of providing good nutrition.
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Touring Soynica's Casa Nutrem Soyaria.
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When the Huichol Center women were headed back home by way of Guatemala City, they got to tour the UPAVIM facility and soyfoods production plant and go up to Solola to visit the Mayan “Soyaria” of ADIBE. This was the first time either of the women had been to Guatemala or Nicaragua, or had flown in an airplane.
Other Guatemala Projects
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Supported by a grant from former Plenty Guatemala volunteer, Jeremy Sherman, the four students above with their mothers and Guillermo Alavarado representing ADIBE, and 16 other students, are receiving scholarships to pay for their school tuitions.
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A soy processing demonstration in the village of San Bartolo was part of the “Village Model Food and Nutrition Program.”
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