Country Programs: Honduras

SHI's pilot program was established in Honduras in 1997. The poorest country in Central America, Honduras is confronted with a host of environmental problems, including massive tropical deforestation. Field trainers work with communities in the municipalities of Azacualpa, Nueva Frontera and Quimistan in the Santa Barbara Department, near the Guatemalan border and in the tribal areas of La Laguna and Cuchillas in the Yoro Department, south of San Pedro Sula.

Sustainable Harvest Honduras is a local independent affiliate of Sustainable Harvest International and currently works with 548 families in 42 communities in the mountainous districts of Santa Barbara and Yoro. More than 250 of the families working with the SH-Honduras program will soon be graduating from the program. Sustainable Harvest Honduras Executive Director, Yovany Munguia tells us, "These families have been working with SHI for more than 5 years and have seen success with the program. They are providing for themselves now. We will still be helping them with marketing and they will be teaching their neighbors what they have learned. With those families graduating successfully from the program we will be able to work with 250 new families that have requested assistance in the coming year."

The Sustainable Harvest Honduras program has hosted many visitors and volunteers through the Smaller World Program. With volunteer support, work at the Florence Reed Demonstration Farm and Training Center in the western district of Santa Barbara continues to go well and recent workshops have included construction of eco-sanitation latrines, biogas digesters and crop diversification.

Visit the Sustainable Harvest Honduras Website: http://www.cosechasosteniblehn.org/