The Gardens Edge

Qachuu Aloom works with 500 Mayan families in Guatemala. Our grant goes to support gardening, seed saving, nutrition, and maternal health services and workshops, including home visits to these families. The 500 families live in 24 different villages, and each family receives workshops and home visits from Qachuu Alooms field team, as well as access to other special educational workshops and help marketing their crop and seed surplus. Mothers and their children in our maternal health project receive monthly health assessments from a nutritionist, vitamin supplements, hygiene cooking and gardening classes. Serving 500 families.

Seed Travels Project: The project is an exchange between Indigenous farmers from Guatemala, NM, Arizona and California, and New York State. We plant Amaranth seeds with partner gardens and host events at the gardens throughout the growing season. This year we had 7 gardens with an average of 30 people at each event.

Sand Dam: This project is building two Sand Dams to their second stage, to bring water to 525 Mayan families in Guatemala. We are also doing continued reforestation on hillsides around the dam. Serves 525 households.