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Food Processing Project Participating Organization(s): Global Village/Proyecto Aldea Global (PAG) Location: Lenca and Urui Food Processors groups in Belen Project Design Document Lenca Producers' Association Processing Project Plan Proyecto Aldea Global (PAG) is a non-governmental organization that has worked with Honduran campesinos (small-scale farmers) in the remote hillside areas of central-northern Honduras called Belen. Chet Thomas is the director of the bilingual staff. PAG brings four to five United States volunteer work teams per year to Belen. Farmer to Farmer and PAG are involved in two main activities: apple production and food processing. The food processing project's objective is to improve the quality and production techniques of the fruit processing plant belonging to the Lenca and Urui Producers' associations. Production focuses on apples but includes papaya, pineapples, blackberries, and other tropical fruit. Volunteers should be prepared with recipes for tropical fruit, home canning techniques, solar drying techniques, trail mix recipes, jams and jellies, snacks, and marketing techniques. To date five volunteers have worked with the Lenca and Urui Food Processors groups. As a result of their activities, the processing equipment is in good working order and ready to process food after the next harvest. The next step is to field a volunteer who can help refine the design of production lines and work on receipts and quality control, and develop roadside market at lake Yojoa. Volunteer(s): Activity: Dates: Volunteer Assignment Trip Report Volunteer(s): John Blough, Martin Blough, Neal Harvey and Harry Shaffer Activity: installation of Ball canning equipment Dates: Nov. 1-16, 1997 Volunteer Assignments Trip Reports |
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