New Grants
Banco de Bosques (BdeB) will build infrastructure and provide training and other support enabling indigenous Mbya Guaraní Argentines in the Yryapu community, province of Misiones, to engage in tourism as a source of income. (AR-364)
Cooperativa de Trabajo Encuentro Limitada (Cooperativa Encuentro) will develop a community network to take advantage of opportunities presented by tourism in and around Rosario and Villa Constitución, will provide training in developing activities for tourists, offer related technical assistance and open a travel agency to market tours in Argentina and abroad. The project is expected benefit 250 Argentines directly and 1,450 indirectly. (AR-365)
La Asociación Civil por la Igualdad y la Justicia (ACIJ) will, in collaboration with 60 residents of 10 irregular settlements in Greater Buenos Aires, collect information on the principal causes of their lack of access to the formal economy. The study will also identify resources, potential public, private and nonprofit partners, and formal and informal networks that can help the residents develop the entrepreneurial skills required to succeed in the formal economy. (AR-366)
Supplemental Grants
Fundación Pro Vivienda Social (FPVS) will expand its training center and form a private-sector network that will partner with nongovernmental organizations and residents of Greater Buenos Aires to address community issues related to infrastructure, utilities and housing conditions. (AR-341-A6)
Cooperativa de Trabajo COOPSOL Ltda. (COOPSOL) will build an additional extraction center that meets the requirements for certification of honey as fair-trade and will study the feasibility of growing and marketing capers. (AR-347-A3)
Circo Social del Sur (CSS) will use circus arts to teach other skills to 430 children, adolescents and young adults from poor neighborhoods in Buenos Aires. It will organize new performances and a second circus troupe made up of its advanced students and will
diversify its sources of income with the goal of becoming more self-sufficient. (AR-352-A4)
Asociación Civil Nuestras Huellas (Nuestras Huellas), which works with community banks in Greater Buenos Aires, will determine the feasibility of its plan to generate income toward self-sufficiency by offering businesses, public entities and other civil society organizations training and technical assistance that draws upon the grantee partner’s expertise in fair trade and the solidarity economy and the development of micro- and small businesses. (AR-362-A1)