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PECAN: Water, Culture and Agriculture in Nicaragua Project

Nicaragua is the second-poorest country in Latin America. The most impoverished farmers live on barely US$360 a year. In addition, 72% of the country’s rural population does not have access to drinking water.

In November 2005, working in cooperation with Oxfam-Québec, the ONE DROP Foundation launched a project to improve the living conditions of disadvantaged rural populations in Estelí, one of Nicaragua’s driest and most mountainous regions, by ensuring a stable supply of water and improving agricultural practices.



To achieve that goal, the project focused on the following activities:

The Water, Culture and Agriculture project in Nicaragua will last at least three years. Thanks to ongoing technical support for the management of reservoirs and family gardens, and to the knowledge and expertise acquired, 10,000 people will be able to achieve a degree of food security and financial confidence, and look to a brighter future.

Objectives of the Nicaragua project and achievements to date



LATEST NEWS

In November 2005, the ONE DROP Foundation launched, in partnership with Oxfam-Québec, a pilot project in Nicaragua to help improve the living condition of disadvantaged rural populations through better access to water and improved agricultural practices.
2007-10-24
The seeds are in the ground, and so are the irrigation pipes. With the start of the rainy season, Darling and his family have been able to resume their farming work. Drop by drop, the PECAN rainwater reservoir is filling up, a promise of better times ahead.
2007-10-16
It took eight pairs of arms and hours of sweaty toil to turn the Carmen Cruz family land into a garden: moving the biggest rocks, plowing soil that had never really been worked, and then sowing. But already the land has begun to bear fruit. The life of the family is gradually being transformed.
2007-10-15



Our partners

Partnerships are a key part of the Nicaragua project. They make it possible to draw on a wide range of complementary Canadian and Nicaraguan expertise. The Foundation works closely with Oxfam-Québec, Théâtre Parminou, Théâtre de l’Aubergine and six Nicaraguan partners:

  • Nicaragua Association of Promoters of Culture (APC)

  • Association of Veterans for Peace and Development (ASOEXCOPADE)

  • Francisco Rivera Quintero Multisectoral Cooperative

  • CON-AGRO, an agro-pastoral production consulting business

  • Women and Community Institute for Social Promotion (IMC)

  • Movement for Peace, Forest Action and the Environment (MOPAF-MA)