Description

The aim of the project was to purchase 10 cows to promote rural community development.

Social counterpart

Zuá Foundation.

Collaborators

Bon Preu (2010-2013).

With the support of

Fair trade consumers.

Alternativa3 collaborated with Fundación Zuá to raise the money needed to buy 10 cows for the 'Los Senderos' Rural Study Centre, located in the municipality of Sasaima, Colombia.

There, several families from Fundación Zuá have decided to leave the suburbs of Bogotá and form a self-sustainable rural community. Their livelihood comes entirely from the produce grown on the farm, from incipient livestock activities and from raising chickens and selling them on the local market.

In October 2007, this community had only one cow, Silvana, which did not provide enough milk to feed all the families. Milk is an essential part of their diet, one of their scarce sources of protein. Now everyone can drink milk daily and they have started making yoghurt and cheese.

In addition, they have started to use solid and liquid waste to produce compost and fertilisers, making vermicompost that they use to improve pastures and to fertilise crops.

What do we fund?

Our target was to get 10 cows and in January 2013 we achieved it!
In fact, more were obtained, as many bred.
All illustrations in the campaign are by Daniela Violi.
Strengthening the capacities of women and young people at risk of social exclusion for the promotion of empowerment and the improvement of their living conditions.

When does it end?

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