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The Women Network of the Marañon River, which brings together 50 promoters and around 500 partners from the basins of the Marañon, Amazon, Ucayali and Tiger rivers, is the result of the impact of "Welcome Health" as a response from his listeners wishing to continue training and exercising social, political and economic leadership as local authorities, managing services or carrying out projects that will allow them to imporove their economy and living conditions.

- They are train for the development of productive projects which allow the generation of additional cash income through the installation and operation of fish farms, poultry modules, agroforestry farms and handicraft production.

- They learn with a participatory and a constructivist approach about health, family planning, human rights and local communities’ management.

The development of projects allows the promoters to:

-  Better health conditions for them and their children as well as greater autonomy for conducting proceedings within the local formal health, agriculture and education systems achieving improvements for their families and communities.

 

-  Regain their traditional indigenous technology, lessening the pressure on the forest and generating resources.

 

-  Fish farms and poultry modules that are currently implemented are an alternative to household food security and income generation through management and breeding of poultry and native fish.

 

-  The agroforestry farms and gardens of medicinal plants allow them to recover the traditional management for the sake of health, especially reproductive healthiness of women.

 
     
     
 
   
 
 
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