2020 De La Gente Annual Report

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Service Learning

Trip

LT is a community led educational exchange program designed to approach global issues at a local scale, creating global relationships based on solidarity and respect for an inclusive, just and sustainable future.

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5 Student Groups from Universities

During 2020 there was participation from the following universities: UWEC: Built a kitchen for the women’s catering bussiness in the Ija’tz community. Indiana University: 1 water retention tank for the Minas family that will allow for a more sustainable coffee production system by storing up to 2000 gallons of water.

Embark Center: 1 patio for drying coffee of 6 by 9mts in lenght with the cpacity to dry 30 quintals of coffee cherries which turns into 450lbs of green coffee per batch.

AGC: Two works of art for Virgilia, one of the members the community to allow of the coffee producing connection between our communities, to allow her a partner coffee producers more dignified home. and art. Vanderbilt: 1 concrete wall for

1 Middle School Group

1 Open Trip


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