Ecobreves – HONDURAS: 33 Municipalities Leave Poverty Behind

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TEGUCIGALPA, Mar 18 2006 (IPS) - – More than 1,730 families in 33 municipalities in the Honduran interior have overcome poverty in the past three years, thanks to a sustainable agriculture, sales and marketing program of the non-governmental development organization Oxfam International. Backed by the European Union, the project took place in regions of western, northern and central Honduras.

Sonia Cano, Oxfam representative in Tegucigalpa, told Tierramérica that the project's main legacy is joint planning: “the desire to overcome and to prove that with few resources but broad stimulus, people can leave behind their mental and physical state of poverty.”

Eight out of 10 Hondurans live in poverty or extreme poverty. Most survive on less than two dollars a day, according to United Nations figures.