San Pedro Puxtla, a municipality in the department of Ahuachapán, has a high rate of human poverty, child malnutrition, food insecurity, limited resources, and vulnerability of children's and women's rights. Gender inequality and the indiscriminate use of pesticides in agriculture are two other factors that have a strong impact on community development; there is also a high percentage of single mothers in the communities.
The solution was to develop methodologies and tools that facilitate the development of sustained women's and children's rights as well as values for a life of health, dignity and solidarity.
Female community leaders organised groups of girls and boys in community demonstration gardens, where they were trained in organic agriculture with climate change resilient and environmentally friendly practices and methodologies. At the same time they promoted children's and women's rights, leadership, entrepreneurship, and gender equality.
The direct participants were 51 girls and 38 boys, 31 adolescents, 30 women and 20 men.
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Fundación para el Desarrollo Socioeconómico y Restauración Ambiental (FUNDESYRAM) is a Salvadoran organisation that facilitates community eco-development, trains and facilitates agroecology with more than 30 organisations in the country and shares its knowledge virtually to 190 countries.