ERD supports El Hogar Farm

The Episcopal Relief and Development office of the Episcopal Church USA provides emergency assistance in times of disaster, rebuilds devastated communities, and offers aid to developing countries around the world. ERD has just granted El Hogar significant support to launch a new community development initiative through El Hogar’s Agricultural School and Farm.

The purpose of the grant is to add curriculum and staff to train and empower the El Hogar Farm students to teach the agricultural and farming techniques they are learning at El Hogar to the rural villages of the Honduran countryside, which live in desperate poverty. This is a complete win-win proposition, as the villages receive the benefit of learning new techniques, thereby increasing their potential for prosperity, and the El Hogar students learn how to be teachers and leaders, not only in their home villages but throughout their country. This program indeed ‘teaches people to fish’ – one of the cornerstone missions of El Hogar.

This multi-year grant from ERD is a partnership that not only recognizes the quality of El Hogar’s Agricultural School, but demonstrates the way both El Hogar and ERD are directly supporting the UN Millennium Development Goal to eliminate extreme poverty by 2015. To achieve this goal is a huge undertaking and a long process, but it is programs such as this that will make it attainable in our lifetime.

El Hogar thanks ERD and all who contribute to its life-sustaining work.

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