Overview
CENTRO MADRE
Centro Madre seeks to improve the quality of people’s lives in Venezuela through personal and community transformation. We stimulate self-sufficiency by empowering the local population through community development projects, educational opportunities, and agricultural food security projects.
PROJECTS:
- Agricultural and Educational Farming
- Centro Prama Community Center
- Weekly Food Distribution
AGRICULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL FARMING PROJECT
In 2000, Centro Madre started an agricultural and educational farm in Barlovento, a region 2 hours east of Caracas. Beginning in 2017, we expanded and the project is now supporting our community center, Centro Prama, in Caracas, and our farm, Ananda Yara, in Yaracuy.
The aims of this project are:
· Distribution of seeds to small farmers
· Distribution of tools
· Courses about organic agriculture
· Courses for personal growth
· Introducing crop diversity
· Cooking courses for a diverse and healthier diet
· Support small-scale food processing industries such as flour mills
· Community outreach: getting to know their needs and potential
· Introducing solar cooking
· Preventative health care
CENTRO PRAMA COMMUNITY CENTER PROJECT
The Centro Parma Community Center project is a community outreach program in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela
The aims of this project are:
· Food distribution to the most vulnerable
· Courses for personal growth
· Community outreach: getting to know their needs and potential
· Cooking courses for a diverse and healthier diet
· Preventative healthcare
WEEKLY FOOD DISTRIBUTION PROJECT
For several years now, Venezuelans have been living under a constant threat to survival due to the existing economic and political crisis which has been aggravated by Covid 19. Local food production is low; and the government buys food, with increasing difficulty, on the international market.
Centro Madre supports local farmers to guarantee food production for the local communities and also supports Centro Prama with weekly food distributions in the streets of Caracas.
