MUJERES DE ISLAS INC
Programs
Proyecto Siembra Community Gardening Initiative
Proyecto Siembra - Through the activities of the program participants offer community service related to planting and creating community gardens and in turn take different workshops or trainings that increase their knowledge and reinforce services. They also receive emotional support work with the development of self-steem and acquire tools to face and manage their challenges of their daily life. The project is a key piece in educating the community about the befenits of traditional and urban agriculture and agroecology. As part of this project the Siembra Club was created which encourages children to have a closer relationship with the land. The program was provided in alliance with AmeriCorps.GeographiesNot indicatedDatesMar 1, 2024 – Feb 28, 2025Source990No causes providedNo populations provided–$396.5KProyecto ecoKit Youth Training Program
Proyecto ecoKitTM - young people were trained in the construction of wooden houses that serve as laboratories in which they experienced sowing harvesting irrigation systems and renewable energy among others. These greenhouses were installed in a community Ecological S in order to function as nurseries with rainwater and renewable energy. The ecoKit promotes play related to planting and nature exposure to experimentation self-experimentation and self-sustainability in the water collection and agro-ecological schoolsGeographiesNot indicatedDatesMar 1, 2024 – Feb 28, 2025Source990No causes providedNo populations provided–$209.8KCulebra Community Kitchen Initiative
Mujeres de Islas has transformed an abandoned school lunchroom into a state of the art industrial community kitchen that provides food in emergencies as part of being Culebras Community Hub and Resilient Center and every week to feed the most vulnerable populations in Culebra. We also provide monthly workshops on everything from baking good making pasta paella using our freshly caught fish as well as our harvested produce and do all in a completely solar energized kitchen where even the ice is produced by the sun!GeographiesNot indicatedDatesMar 1, 2024 – Feb 28, 2025Source990No causes providedNo populations provided–$52.4K
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