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Women & Nature
need your support
Help Women &
Nature is Viva Sierra Gorda´s donation program to build stronger
cooperatives and protect the environment they depend upon. By increasing the
skills needed, the self esteem and the entrepreneurial capacity of each
woman, the donation has a positive impact on the household and community and
encourages best practices from campesino to campesino, woman to woman.
Buy from and
visit the Network of Micro-Enterprise by Women & Nature in the Sierra Gorda
Biosphere Reserve, Mexico. Help build a healthy economy that benefits rural
livelihoods and Nature.
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Alimentos Pura Vida |
Abejas Orgánicas |
Bordados |
Cerámica |
Remedios Valen |
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Felicidades a las mujeres de la
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El
Presidente Felipe Calderón Hinojosa encabezó el 26 de
noviembre de 2011 la entrega de reconocimientos a diez
empresas sociales exitosas, que participan en la XIV Feria
Nacional FONAES Invierno 2011, y que destacaron por la
calidad y variedad de los productos y servicios que
ofrecen.
Las empresas sociales que fueron reconocidas por el
Presidente de la República son 10, entre ellas:
"Bordados con motivos de la Naturaleza", una microempresa
exitosa desde hace 5 años. 31 mujeres de la comunidad de "La
Colgada" trabajan desarrollando nuevas capacidades y
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Why to Buy Rural Products:
The 638
rural communities in Sierra Gorda have no job opportunities, minimal
education , a dependency on remittances, and own 97% of the land in the most
ecosystem-diverse Biosphere Reserve in Mexico. 35% of the population seeks
work in the USA and big cities in Mexico to generate secure income for
growing families back in the Sierra Gorda. Subsequently, the migrant
workers are primarily men and it is the community women who sustain the
local economy while caring for their children and elderly in extreme poverty
conditions in the rural mountains. But families are receiving less from the
outside and rural poverty is more dependent on the resources available next
door in the forests and the semi-desert which means there is a growing
threat on wildlife, biodiversity, soils and ecosystem health.
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Life Foods (Alimentos Pura Vida) is a dedicated group of women
living in one of 638 communities in the Sierra Gorda Biosphere
Reserve. Whereas local produce in this tropical ecosystem have
little access to market and often rot in the fields, the community
women are converting the foodstuff to make quality products with
exquisite tastes and natural health in mind.
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Organic Bees (Abejas Orgánicas) is a regional initiative to recover
the beekeeping (apiculture) tradition and improve the skills,
management and infrastructure that benefit organic life cycles and
agricultural production in the region. |
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 Embroidery Inspired by
Nature (Bordados con Motivos de la Naturaleza), was founded and
continues to employ 31 women in an extremely poor community. This
successful cooperative was founded 6 years ago and has won national
awards and international distribution for their high quality,
original designs and effective management of a rural microenterprise.
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This
ceramic workshop began as a collaboration of three generations of
women in Soledad de Guadalupe, producing traditional pots and
selling during the Sunday market. As a cooperative, the partners
have improved the equipment, diversified products and today their
original designs are sold in Jalpan de Serra and Querétaro City.
They accept special orders for hand crafted products.
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Vale´s Remedies (Remedios Valen) is a family-run business in a small
corner of a community in the Sierra Gorda. Doña Vale produces a
wide range of natural remedies ranging from drops, pomades, shampoos
and ointments to treat health and beauty needs with natural herbs
and traditional knowledge.
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Viva Sierra Gorda is a project of
 Earth Island Institute.
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