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Artículo original tomado de Women Thrive Worldwide. Su traducción al español está en proceso.
Worldwide, over a billion people - 1 out of every 6 human beings —live in extreme poverty, surviving on less than $1 a day.
In Nicaragua, this is enough for a woman to buy a bus ticket to get to work....
In India, this is enough for a girl to buy one notepad for school....
In Nigeria, this is enough for a mother to buy one loaf of bread for her children....
Most Americans can't imagine trying to feed their families, send their kids to school, or take care of relatives on only a dollar a day. But millions of women around the world are forced to do exactly that. Even though women are more likely to spend income on food and education for their children and, in many countries, produce the majority of the food supply, they face unequal barriers that prevent them from earning enough money to escape poverty. Giving women economic opportunity turns this cycle around.
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Artículo original tomado de Women Thrive Worldwide. Su traducción al español está en proceso.
In February of 2008, Ritu Sharma Fox, President and Co-founder of Women Thrive Worldwide (Women Thrive), traveled to Nicaragua, one of the poorest countries in the Americas, with Catalina Rojas, Director of Global Partnerships, and Nora O’Connell, Vice President for Policy and Government Affairs, to assess how U.S. assistance programs are (or are not) impacting women.
She spent one weekend of this trip trying to live on $1 a day (20 Nicaraguan Cordovas), much like millions of the poorest women all over the world, in the rural area of Terrabona in the Matagalpa state of Nicaragua. As she finds out, it is not easy even in rural Nicaragua. Click here to see what she could buy with a dollar in the local market, and read her diary below.
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Artículo original tomado de Women Thrive Worldwide. Su traducción al español está en proceso.
In honor of International Women's Day (March 8) and Women's History Month (March), Ritu Sharma Fox, Women Thrive Worldwide's President and Co-founder traveled to Nicaragua, one of the poorest countries in the Americas, where approximately 831,000 people struggle to survive on less than a dollar a day. In Terrabona, a rural region in Nicaragua, Ritu met two extraordinary women, Leticia and Betilde, both of whom live on far less than a dollar a day. Leticia, one of FEMUPROCAN's several founders, and Betilde are members of FEMUPROCAN, a women's agricultural cooperative working to economically empower women to escape poverty.
In the following interviews Leticia and Betilde discuss their lives, their work with FEMUPROCAN, and why economic opportunity is so important for women living in poverty.
Video included/ Videos incluidos.
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 Mercado Vial En saludo al 08 de marzo, La Federación Agropecuaria de Cooperativas de Mujeres Productoras del Campo de Nicaragua - FEMUPROCAN, R.L., abrió las puertas del Mercado Vial ubicado en el km 88 Carretera Panamericana, como modelo de la Red Productiva para Comercialización. Con ventas permanentes de productos como Cebolla, Tomates, Chiltoma, Pepino, producido por socias afiliadas y beneficiarias de los Sistemas de Riego, Vinos producidos por socias de Nandaime, tubérculos producidos por socias de Nueva Guinea, Frijoles cultivados en la zona del Cúa por socias afiliadas a Femuprocan, con el objetivo del desarrollo económico de las cooperativas afiliadas.
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