The Hunger Project-Mexico
Update to the Global Board

The expansion programmed in the three states where we are working, Durango, Zacatecas and Chiapas, has created an intense phase of mobilization in those regions. We continue to develop a stronger relationship with the local authorities of the communities, with the municipal presidents of the municipios and with the state government. 

In order to succeed in this expansion we have created a partnership with government agencies from Durango and Zacatecas to have a group of their staff be trained as Hunger Project trainers and we had the First Training of Trainers with a group of ten trainers.

Another important partnership was established with the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey ITESM, Campus Zacatecas with their program Social Enterprises Incubator. The partnership enables us to work together in creating legally incorporated enterprises from the projects arising in the communities. The ITESM will advise the groups of projects through their incubator process, which includes training in finances and legal aspects. We will look to expand this partnership to the rest of the states where we are working, since the ITESM has a campus in every state of Mexico.

Community: El Zacate

Start Year: 2008

Major accomplishments this period:

• Essential diagnosis of the community.
• Vision, Commitment and Action (VCA) workshop conducted with 34 people.
• Community priority is to build a bridge to be able to cross the river that is formed during the rainy season and that keeps them isolated during this season.
• Bridge Committee was formed and they had a meeting with the municipal president.
• $100,000 pesos were offered from the municipal president to the community.
• First ever celebration of International Women’s Day where women had the opportunity to learn for the first time about their rights.

Community: San José de Barrones

Start Year: 2008

Major accomplishments this period:

• Essential diagnosis of the community
• VCA workshop conducted with a group of women since most of the men of this community emigrated to US.
• Cleaning and hygiene campaign to prevent common diseases.
• Reforestation of the green areas of the community.

Community: Los Esquiveles

Start Year: 2008

Major accomplishments this period:

• Essential diagnosis of the community.
• VCA workshop conducted with a group of women.
• First ever celebration of International Women’s Day where women had the opportunity to learn for the first time about their rights.
• Women's safety campaign to prevent men molesting them. They will clean the main road to keep it clear for better visibility.
• Phrases of the community’s vision created in the VCAW are painted on walls around the community.

Community: Santo Niño

Start Year: 2008

Major accomplishments this period:

• Essential diagnosis of the community.
• VCA workshop conducted with 39 participants.
• Cleaning and hygiene campaign to prevent common diseases.
• Communal garbage dump was created.
• Earth Day celebration planned.
• Phrases of the community’s vision created in the VCAW are painted in walls around the community.

Community: La Barranca

Start Year: 2008

Major accomplishments this period:

• Essential diagnosis of the community.
• VCA workshop conducted with 12 women participants.
• As part of the community’s vision that has been created, there is a commitment to have better nutrition.
• A poultry farming project has been initiated.

Community: San Antonio de Morelos

Start Year: 2008

Major accomplishments this period:

• Essential diagnosis of the community.
• Strategic conversations with leaders of the community.
• General assembly with the community.

Community: Enrique Flores Magón

Start year: 2007

Major accomplishments this period:

• Essential diagnosis of the community.
• VCA Workshop with the municipal president and people from the village.
• Project: Each citizen of this village who doesn’t have yet her or his birth certificate will get it. Particularly, the women.
• 15 women received technical training in how to produce bread in order to create their own bakery.
• Eight women participating in the sewing workshop have created a fund to open their store soon.
• 25 people received a training in how to produce pork sausage and marinate pork meat to sell it and have better income.

Community: San José de Zaragoza

Start Year: 2007

Major accomplishments this period:

• Essential diagnosis of the community.
• Strategic conversations with the local authorities and key leaders to establish a formal partnership with The Hunger Project.
• Recycling project very active to create a sandbox in their main plaza.

Community: San Antonio de Zaragoza

Start Year: 2007

Major accomplishments this period:

• Essential diagnosis of the community.
• Strategic conversations with the local authorities to establish a formal partnership with The Hunger Project.
• Recycling project very active; the income of this period has been assigned to create a sandbox in their main plaza.

Community: Sombreretillo

Start Year: 2007

Major accomplishments this period:

• Essential diagnosis of the community.
• Recreation project to create a regional recreation center as an income-generating project for the community and to create a space where families can spend time together.
• Recycling project very active; the income of this period has been assigned to create a sandbox in their main plaza.

Community: Ignacio Zaragoza

Start Year: 2008

Major accomplishments this period:

• Strategic conversations with the local authorities to establish a partnership with The Hunger Project.
• Strategic conversations with the key leaders of the community.
• Essential diagnosis of the community.

Community: Huarichíc

Start Year: 2008

Major accomplishments this period:

• Strategic conversations with the local authorities to establish a partnership with The Hunger Project.
• General Assembly with the community.
• Essential diagnosis of the community.
• VCA workshop conducted with 38 women.
• Cleaning and sanitation campaign inside the community.
• Creation of family vegetable gardens initiated.

Community: 20 de Noviembre

Start Year: 2008

Major accomplishments this period:

• Strategic conversation conducted with the local authorities.
• General Assembly conducted with the people of the community.
• Essential diagnosis of the community.
• First VCA Workshop conducted with a group of people from the community.
• 30 community volunteers (23 women, 7 men).
• Creation of the The Hunger Project Liaison Committee with the village formed by six people (5 women, 1 man)
• 20 people trained in elaboration of ceramics.

Community: Tierra Generosa

Start Year: 2008

Major accomplishments this period:

• Essential diagnosis of the community.
• General Assembly conducted with the people of the community.
• Two VCA Workshops conducted with the people of the community.
• 32 community volunteers (21 women, 11 men)
• 28 families each started a poultry farming project and a green vegetable garden.

Community: Manantial de la Honda

Start Year: 2008

Major accomplishments this period:

• Essential diagnosis of the community.
• General Assembly conducted with the people of the community.
• One VCA Workshop conducted with a group of people of the community.
• 18 community volunteers (17 woman, 1 man).
• Construction of the community clinic initiated.
• Training in embroidery using ribbon held.

Community: Juan Salas Fernández

Start Year:2007

Major accomplishments this period:

• Essential diagnosis of the community.
• One VCA Workshop conducted with a group of people of the community.
• 24 community volunteers (18 woman, 6 men) and one catalyst (trained volunteer animator).
• A community priority is to have access to water via a well. The community is 70% advanced in the construction of the well.
• Remodeling of a classroom to be used as the room for the community meetings.
• 50% advanced in the construction of the community kindergarten project.

Community: Emilio Carranza

Start Year: 2008

Major accomplishments this period:

• Essential diagnosis of the community.
• Strategic conversation with the local authorities.
• General Assembly with the people of the community.
• One VCA Workshop conducted with a group of people of the village.
• 55 community volunteers (35 woman, 20 men) and two catalysts.

Community: Miguel Auza

Start Year: 2005

Major accomplishments this period:

• Essential diagnosis of the community.
• Three VCA Workshops conducted with a group of people of the community.
• 20 community volunteers (18 women, 2 men) and five catalysts.
• The day care center for working women project has reach its goal of number of attendants and it was graded as the top day care center out of the 62 that exists in the state.
• One seafood restaurant registered legally.
• A recreational facility was open with a 30-year operation permit. This facility has thermal springs.
• The aloe vera products “Mazzabila” and the honey production projects are under the incubator program of the ITESM as part of the partnership established with The Hunger Project.

Community: Ojitos

Start Year: 2008

Major accomplishments this period:

• Strategic conversations conducted with the local authorities.
• General Assembly conducted with the people of the community.
• Essential diagnosis of the community.
• One VCA Workshop conducted with a group of people of the community.
• 40 community volunteers (39 women, 1 man).
• Creation of the The Hunger Project Liaison Committee. The Education Committee already existed and decided to become part of the The Hunger Project Liaison Committee.
• Health project: The people organized to request local authorities to relocate the beer store from downtown to the entrance of the community since it was open all day.

Community: Jalpa

Start Year: 2008

Major accomplishments this period:

• Strategic conversation with the local authorities.
• General Assembly conducted with the people of the community.
• Essential diagnosis of the community.
• First VCA Workshop conducted with a group of people from the community.
• 52 volunteers (48 women, 2 men).

Community: Las Norias

Start Year: 2008

Major accomplishments this period:

• Strategic conversation conducted with the local authorities.
• General Assembly conducted with the people of the community.
• Essential diagnosis of the community.
• Two VCA workshops conducted with a group of people of the community.
• 32 Volunteers (7 women, 25 men).
• Construction of the community room to have community meetings.
• Sheep farming project initiated.

Community: Juan José Ríos

Start Year: 2008

Major accomplishments this period:

• Strategic conversation conducted with the local authorities.
• General Assembly conducted with the people of the community.
• Essential diagnosis of the community.
• Two VCA workshops conducted with a group of people of the community.
• 29 volunteers (18 women, 11 men).
• In partnership with SEPLADER, a training was held in the industrialization of the cactus since there is a lot of cactus in this community.
• Project to unify the youth group of the community initiated.

Community: Corrales

Start Year: 2008

Major accomplishments this period:

• Strategic conversation conducted with the local authorities.
• General Assembly conducted with the people of the community.
• Essential diagnosis of the community.
• First VCA workshop with a group of people of the community.
• 53 volunteers (40 women, 13 men).
• Volunteers trained in elaboration of ceramics.

Commuity: Paradillas

Start Year: 2008

Major accomplishments this period:

• Strategic conversation conducted with the local authorities.
• General Assembly conducted with the people of the community.
• Essential diagnosis of the community.
• First VCA workshop with a group of the community.
• 58 community volunteers (40 women, 18 men).

Community: El Saucillo

Major accomplishments this period:

• Strategic conversation conducted with the local authorities.
• General Assembly conducted with the people of the community.
• Essential diagnosis of the community.
• First VCA Workshop with a group of the villagers.
• 20 community volunteers (15 women, 5 men) and one catalyst.
• Cleaning and hygiene campaigns held.

Community: La Quemada

Major accomplishments this period:

• Strategic conversation conducted with the local authorities.
• General Assembly conducted with the people of the community.
• Essential diagnosis of community.
• First VCA Workshop with a group of the villagers.
• 23 community volunteers (12 women, 11 men) and one catalyst.

Community: El Porvernir

Start Year: 2008

Major accomplishments this period:

• Strategic conversation conducted with the local authorities.
• General Assembly conducted with the people of the community.
• Essential diagnosis of the community.
• VCA Workshop conducted with a group of people of the community.
• 25 community volunteers (20 woman, 5 men) and four catalysts.

Community: San Francisco

Start Year: 2008

Major accomplishments this period:

• Strategic conversation conducted with the local authorities.
• General Assembly conducted with the people of the community.
• VCA Workshop with a group of people of the community.
• 38 community volunteers (20 women, 18 men) and two catalysts.

Community: Enrique Estrada

Start Year: 2008

Major accomplishments this period:

• Strategic conversation conducted with the local authorities.
• General Assembly conducted with the people of the community.
• Essential diagnosis of the community.
• VCA Workshop with a group of people of the community.
• 43 community volunteers (30 women, 13 men) and two catalysts.

Community: Nieves

Start Year: 2006

Major accomplishments this period:

• Strategic conversation conducted with the new municipal president who is from a different political party than the former president.
• Essential diagnosis of the community.

Community: San Lucas

Start Year: 2007

Major accomplishments this period:

• Essential diagnosis of the community.
• Eight VCA workshops conducted with the people of the community.
• 240 community volunteers (190 women, 60 men) and eight catalysts.
• Project to clean the well of the drinkable water.
• 50% progress in the construction of their main plaza.
• 30% progress in the construction of public restrooms.

Community: Laguna

Start Year: 2007

Major accomplishments this period:

• Essential diagnosis of the community
• Six VCA workshops conducted with the people of the community.
• 260 community volunteers (200 women, 60 men) and 19 catalysts.
• Certification from the government as a hygienic community.
• 40% progress in the construction of a recreational park as income generation for the community since it will be used by nearby communities.
• Training in domestic technology.
• Training in ceramic production.
• Training in jewelry production.
• Conditioning of an old room to become the community training room.

Comunity Benito Juárez:

Start Year: 2007

Major accomplishments this period:

• Essential diagnosis of the community.
• Eight VCA workshops conducted with the people of the community.
• 150 community volunteers (100 women, 50 men) and 10 catalysts.
• Training in domestic technology.
• Training in ceramic production.
• Training in jewelry production.
• Health clinic equipped.
• 50% progress in the health clinic bordered with cyclone fencing.
• Reforestation of an area of the community.
• Permanent cleaning campaigns.
• International Women’s Day celebration.

Community: Valenciana

Start Year: 2007

Major accomplishments this period:

• Essential diagnosis of the community.
• Two VCA workshops conducted with the people of the community.
• 80 community volunteers (50 women, 30 men)
• Access to drinkable water is the priority. Negotiation with CONAGUA to have drinkable water. Also, a water filter was bought to purify the water because it not pure now.
• Restoration of the street lighting to have more safety in the community.

Community: Providencia

Start Year: 2007

Major accomplishments this period:

• Essential diagnosis of the community.
• One VCA workshop conducted with the people of the community.
• 28 community volunteers (all women) and one catalyst.
• Their priority is to promote unity among the people in the community.
• Education project to increase the level of the education in the community.

Community: El Carnero

Start Year: 2007

Major accomplishments this period:

• Essential diagnosis of the community .
• Three VCA workshops conducted with the people of the community.
• 38 community volunteers (28 women, 10 men) and one catalyst.
• Training in ceramic production.
• Health Clinic project to create an annex to the clinic.

Community: Anastasio V. Hinojosa

Start Year: 2008

Major accomplishments this period:

• Strategic conversation conducted with the local authorities.
• Essential diagnosis of the community.
• General Assembly conducted with the people of the village.
• One VCA Workshop conducted with the people of the community.
• 48 volunteers (36 women, 12 men).

Community: Tetillas

Start Year: 2008

Major accomplishments this period:

• Strategic conversation conducted with the local authorities.
• General Assembly conducted with the people of the village.
• One VCA workshop conducted with the people of the community.
• Essential diagnosis of the community.
• 21 volunteers (13 women, 8 men).

Boquilla de Arriba

Start Year: 2008

Major accomplishments this period:

• Strategic conversation conducted with the local authorities.
• Essential diagnosis of the community.

Major accomplishments this period:

• Strategic conversation conducted with the municipal president.
• Essential diagnosis of the community.
• Day care center project started.

Major accomplishments this period:

• Strategic conversation conducted with the local authorities.
• General Assembly conducted with the people of the community.
• Essential diagnosis of the community.
• Peach processing project started to create marmalade and peach juice.

Major accomplishments this period:

• Strategic conversation conducted with the local authorities.
• General Assembly conducted with the people of the community.
• Essential diagnosis of the community.
• Clothing production project started.

Major accomplishments this period:

• Strategic conversation conducted with the local authorities.
• General Assembly conducted with the people of the community.
• Essential diagnosis of the community.
• Milk and cheese processing project started.

Major accomplishments this period:

• Strategic conversation conducted with the local authorities.
• General Assembly conducted with the people of the community.
• Essential diagnosis of the community.
• Fish farming project.
• Recreational park project started.

Major accomplishments this period:

• Strategic conversation conducted with the local authorities.
• General Assembly conducted with the people of the community.
• One VCA Workshop conducted with the people of the community.
• Essential diagnosis of the community.
• Pedestrian bridge project started in order for children to be able to attend school in the rainy season.
• Drinkable water well project started.

Major accomplishments this period:

• Strategic conversation conducted with the local authorities.
• Strategic conversation conducted with teachers of the community.
• One VCA workshop conducted with the youth of the community.
• Essential diagnosis of the community.
• Training in domestic technology to create a micro company.
• Training in piñata production to create a micro company.

Major accomplishments this period:

• Strategic conversation conducted with the local authorities.
• General Assembly conducted with the people of the community.
• Essential diagnosis of the community.
• Stable construction to improve the quality of the livestock.

Major accomplishments this period:

• Strategic conversation conducted with the local authorities.
• Essential diagnosis of the community.

Major accomplishments this period:

• Strategic conversation conducted with the local authorities.
• Essential diagnosis of the community.

Major accomplishments this period:

• Strategic conversation conducted with the local authorities.
• Essential diagnosis of the community.

Major accomplishments this period:

• Strategic conversation conducted with the local authorities.
• General Assembly conducted with the people of the community.
• Essential diagnosis of the community.
• Clothing production project started.

Major accomplishments this period:

• Strategic conversation conducted with the local authorities.
• Essential diagnosis of the community.

Major accomplishments this period:

• Strategic conversation conducted with the local authorities.
• Essential diagnosis of the community.

Major accomplishments this period:

• Strategic conversation conducted with the local authorities.
• Essential diagnosis of the community.

Major accomplishments this period:

• Strategic conversation conducted with the local authorities.
• Essential diagnosis of the community.

Major accomplishments this period:

•  Strategic conversation conducted with the local authorities.
• General Assembly conducted with the people of the community.
• Essential diagnosis of the community.

Major accomplishments this period:

• Strategic conversation conducted with the local authorities.
• Essential diagnosis of the community.

Major accomplishments this period:

• Strategic conversation conducted with the local authorities.
• Essential diagnosis of the community.

Major accomplishments this period:

• Strategic conversation conducted with the local authorities.
• Essential diagnosis of the community.

Major accomplishments this period:

• Strategic conversation conducted with the local authorities.
• Essential diagnosis of the community.

Major accomplishments this period:

• Strategic conversation conducted with the local authorities.
• Essential diagnosis of the community.

Major accomplishments this period:

• Strategic conversation conducted with the local authorities.
• Essential diagnosis of the community.

Municipal Government: Municipal President

2008-2011

Major accomplishments this period:

• Meeting with the municipal president-elect before he officially started his term as municipal president, during which we presented The Hunger Project methodology and strategy in order to create a partnership in this municipio.
• Meeting with the municipal president and key staff to initiate the partnership with The Hunger Project.
• Three villages elected to work as pilot villages in this municipio.
• Municipal staff assigned to work as a liaisons to The Hunger Project and to accompany us to the villages.

Community: El Tanque

Start Year: 2008

Major accomplishments this period:

• Meeting with the community authorities and a group of women to present the work of The Hunger Project.
• A general assembly to present The Hunger Project to all the community was agreed to.

Community: Zaragoza de la montaña

Start Year: 2008

Major accomplishments this period:

• Meeting with the community authorities  to present the work of The Hunger Project.
• A general assembly to present The Hunger Project to all the community was agreed to.

Strategic group: J’pas Joloviletik Women’s Cooperative

Start Year: 2008

Major accomplishments this period:

• Three meetings with the key leaders of this 220-member women’s cooperative from five municipios to establish a partnership with The Hunger Project.
• VCAW with 16 women from six villages from the five municipios. The VCAW was translated to Tzotzil dialect by a female volunteer.
• The women identified the need to have access to new markets through the internet for their high-quality products and the need to identify new products that can be innovative for the market.
• The women want to improve their income to have better nutrition and health for their children.