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It’s a hot July day. After work, you need to visit travel agencies to decide where to go on vacation. The beach, the mountains, relaxing, exotic…nothing convinces you because you’re the type of person who lives to learn about and immerse yourself in the customs and culture of other countries.
You go on Flickr to see if you can find a photo of someone’s trip to some country which convinces you that that should be your next destination. You see photos of Lyon, Lloret, Cadiz, New York…and then you see the PHOTO, or rather, the PHOTOS. Testimony from the Intervida sponsors who have traveled to India, the Philippines, Bangladesh, Ecuador, Nicaragua or Mali to get to know the projects we work on and, more importantly, to meet firsthand the children they sponsor and their families.
In Intervida we offer the chance for all of our sponsors to travel to their sponsored child’s country and get to know firsthand the project which we are carrying out thanks to their support.
Many sponsors are already preparing their trips for this August and September. Don’t miss the photos they’ll be hanging on Flickr and…you know…choose your destination!
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Today is a special day: World Population Day. Around the world there will be cultural events, theatrical performances, meetings, seminars...The United Nations’ message for this day comes in the form of the slogan: “Plan your future: Plan your family”. According to Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund, assistance in birthing and family planning is essential to the development of the community, which is why it is necessary to introduce health services to women in the communities where they live.
At Intervida, we believe that this is the path to follow and we are already working along these lines in communities in Bangladesh, India and the Philippines. In addition to offering health care to pregnant women, providing them with training on infant care and hygiene, we also organize informative sessions in which the health teams explain the functioning of the reproductive system and ways to prevent sexually transmitted diseases.
Today is a world day for all of us. Let’s join together to promote women’s independence and give them access to reproductive health care.
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The majority of rural areas in India use agriculture only for subsistence, meaning that they make no profit from this practice; as a result, income levels in these rural areas are extremely low.
To rectify this situation, Intervida works to promote agricultural activities aimed at generating income, and not self-consumption, such as the cultivation of medicinal plants, goat-breeding and beekeeping.
In the case of bee-keeping, Intervida seeks persons interested in creating this type of cooperative and puts them in contact with the Beekeepers Association of Pune (India) so that they can be technically trained. The professional beekeepers explain the entire process of raising bees and collecting honey to obtain products and later be able to commercialize these.
Beekeeping consists in the domestic raising of bees for the extraction of honey as a primary product, although beeswax and other products are also obtained in the process. It begins with the search for a queen bee, which is removed from the hive and placed in an artificial wood frame. Once there, all the drones and worker bees go to her and dedicate themselves to gathering nectar and producing honey.
It is not enough just to survive. Intervida is committed to improving the quality of lives of the communities with whom we work.
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June 20th: classes are over and the grades are in, an acknowledgement of our dedication and a job well done.
For Intervida, school isn’t out (we continue working), but we did get the highest grade: the “IX National Laurel for Environmental Protection 2008”, an award given by the Environmental Fund of El Salvador (FONAES), an entity of the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources, in recognition of our efforts to protect the environment in the smallest country in Central America, El Salvador.
A country affected by various environmental problems, it is estimated that El Salvador generates more than 2,300 tons of solid waste a day and that only 69% of its municipalities have garbage-collection services. Furthermore, over 50% of the land is inappropriately used , some 4,500 hectares of land are deforested each year, 70% of the activities which generate sewage do not have corresponding treatment, and more than half of the rural population do not have access to drinking water or sanitation systems.
With Intervida’s “Sustainable Environmental Management” and “Community Development” development programs, we contribute to meeting some of these needs in the Departments of La Paz, San Vicente, Usulután, La Libertad and Morazán. We also support the communities and the municipal governments in conducting diagnostic studies on the state of the water basins, and in carrying out projects aimed at solving the problems detected.
We continue working...
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Your collaboration has allowed us to go from being a project to being a reality: we have counted from 1 to 18,600.
1 week on-line
141 T-shirts
2,400 users
8,000 votes
18,600 visited sites
Now we would like to become something bigger, we would like for more people to know this project, because it is unfair that thousands of children have to work in order to survive. If you have not done so yet, join our campaign and make a move.