Nicaragua

AIR supported by 2 cents per meal; details to follow when available]

Rancho Ebenezer [was supported by 2 cents per meal]
In Nicaragua, more than the 70 % of the population does not have a job in the rural areas, so they leave their villages and move to to closest main city. That causes an over population in the cities and the poverty increases in the country. According to the research of independent companies, more than the 60% of the population survive with less than U$1.00 per day per capita. That means that all those people have to dress, eat, care, study with less than U$ 1.00 per day. How do they do that? Only they know how. Nicaragua is one of the poorest countries in Latin America and children are the most affected.

Rancho Ebenezer (RAEME) was founded in 1987 by six pastors who saw the need for food in the poor communities around Nicaragua. They thought that the project would be a good way to respond to God’s call to show compassion and justice to the humble.

The purpose of RAEME is to teach the rural poor how to raise crops and produce animal protein to meet their families’ needs. Small groups of families are brought from cooperating villages to the teaching/research farm, given hands-on training in the production of small domestic animals (chickens, rabbits, goats), taught the basics of soil restoration and reforestation, and the production of feed and food crops on small plots of land.

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