- Design, develop and implement specific actions to contribute to the well-being of the community and palliate the needs of the rural population of the Argentine Northwest.
- Encourage the community participation in the design and management of development projects.
- Foster the creation, development and strengthening of both individual and group micro and small productive projects, oriented towards a sustainable growth.
- Empower abilities and competencies to allow development and self management.
- -Help revalue labor culture.
- Provide tools that can make for a better labor insertion.
- Facilitate the transmission of acquired abilities and experiences lived, thus generating multiplying agents.
A. Rural communities support program
General Goal
To strengthen the communities we worked with by supporting productive projects and providing basic assistance.
Productive Development
We promote productive projects to encourage entrepreneurial abilities, foster a culture of labor and facilitate access to education.
These projects comprise the encouragement and technical, organizational and financial support of self managed and sustainable socio-productive projects in order to help communities to help themselves. This program goal, key to FCA mission, is twofold: a) the manufacturing of goods and services that can partially or totally meet the community basic needs, and b) the fostering of cooperation among the members of the community for them to reach the common well-being.
Specific goals
- Genuine generation of ideas to solve problems.
- The identification of ways to better exploit both traditional and new resources by the local community.
- The leverage of the knowledge and the organization already existing in the community.
- The availability of tools and input necessary to attain social or productive projects.
- The training and experience of peers.
Beneficiaries
Primary schools and the students’ families in the 36 communities we work with.
Projects
Some examples of these actions are: water supply initiatives, orchards - farms, sewing workshop, training in baking and construction of mud ovens, micro dairy farm.
he progress reached in the development of these projects is the result of a joint effort between parent’s commissions and the schoolmasters.
Basic Assistance
Beneficiaries
In 2008, almost 13 tons of foods were sent to 31 schools that provided education to over 1,500 children.
B. High school support program
General Goal
Specific goals
- Improve the conditions of the education in the rural environment.
- Develop programs in the school, resulting in new tools for the students.
- Turn students into multiplying agents of the acquired abilities (from the school to the whole community).
- Support programs that allow students to strengthen their newly acquired abilities.
- Set links between the schools and the productive means of the community.
- Take actions to increase the conditions of schooling and diminish school dropouts.
Beneficiaries
In 2008, 7 High School projects started, reaching the 2000 beneficiaries.
