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Cooperativa de Provisión de Servicios Educacionales Asistenciales y Comunitarios
“Barrio La Juanita” Ltda. (La Juanita), $142,160 over two years
La Juanita will promote the marke integration of seven garment and textile micro-enterprises in Greater Buenos Aires through a program that will increase productivity and sales, directly benefiting 60 workers. Another 760 members of Asociación Unión Campesina will benefit indirectly from selling the micro-enterprises organic cotton. (AR-343)
Fundación ph15 para las Artes (ph15)
$111,100 over two years
Ph15 will use photography to improve the employment prospects and social integration of 400 young people from shantytowns in Buenos Aires by strengthening skills and providing work experience. The project will indirectly benefit 1,500 other residents of the participating communities. (AR-344)
Fundación Pro Vivienda Social (FPVS)
$204,692 over three years
FPVS is a nongovernmental organization founded to improve housing conditions in Greater Buenos Aires. Working with neighborhood organizations, it will connect 1,500 families from a 220–block area of Moreno, José C. Paz and Pilar to a natural gas network and provide access to natural gas and other services to another 225 block-area which does not yet have the infrastructure. More than 8,000 individuals will benefit. (AR-341)
Fundación Proteger (Proteger)
$130,910 over two years
Proteger will enable families who live from fishing along the Lower and Middle Paraná River to diversify production and improve quality control and access to markets. Working through Redepesca, a loose federation of 20 fishing organizations, the grantee expects to help 300 individuals double their income through sales and value added. (AR-345)
Fundación Sustentabilidad, Educación, Solidaridad (Fundación SES)
$35,000 over one year
Fundación SES will study the feasibility of developing community foundations in 10 provinces of Argentina. (AR-342)
Supplemental Grants
Asociación de Mujeres Warmi Sayajsunqo (WARMI)
$100,000
Warmi will strengthen its indigenous Coya beneficiaries’ skills in financial management and accounting, project evaluation and conflict resolution and will extend its microcredit program into 10 Coya communities near Abra Pampa, Jujuy. (AR-329-A3)
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