Education helps people to move out of poverty. HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation is working with the relevant authorities to improve secondary education and is campaigning for more young people to receive practical vocational training ...
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The Swiss eat 12 kilos of chocolate per year, of which only 60g are Fairtrade. Helvetas is striving to raise this share and advises cocoa farmers in Honduras on how to sell their crop for a fair price.
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The Local Market Development project focuses on value chain development in fruit and vegetable production and processing in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. The project works as a facilitator along the value chain “Farmer Groups – ...
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It is a tough task for smallholder farmers in Guatemala to feed their families. With help from HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation, young men and women from smallholder farming families learn to develop new avenues for employment and ...
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The project called “Samriddhi”, which means ‘prosperity’ in Bangla, contributes to sustainable well-being and resilience of poor and extremely poor households through social and economic empowerment. The project is active in Rajshahi ...
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After several years of support, organic and fair cotton production and marketing is well developed in Burkina Faso. Three ongoing projects strengthen the economic and institutional sustainability of the value chain actors and generate ...
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The rural poverty in Central Tanzania is manifested by very low incomes and frequent food shortages including lack of reliable markets and employment opportunities. HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation contributes to improving the welfare ...
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