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Don't miss our 6th Annual Holiday Auction! The auction will run on eBay (viaeBaygivingworks.com) from November 26th - December 6th. As always, all proceeds go towards Minga's grassroots projects around the world. We will share the link to the items on Thanksgiving Day, so watch...
Of course it can! When you turn it into a game, kids and their parents can clean up an entire village in less than an hour. Well, maybe two hours. They have fun doing it, and they learn something too....
At the Health Center vegetable garden in Ecuador, you often hear: "Can we eat it yet?", "Is this a pepper or a carrot?", "Who gets to water the plants tomorrow?"...
Community members often send their children to get medicinal plants from the health center garden. Residents complement treatment from the clinic with traditional herbal remedies. Having them all in one garden is much easier than having to trek through and search the jungle when someone...
Emergency patients arrive at our health center in El Páramo, Ecuador at all hours of the night. They are accompanied by the village health promoter who has already provided basic first aid, organized community members to build a stretcher out of available materials, and led...
Did you know you can make a hanging sink out of a plastic bottle? Neither did the people of El Páramo. Thanks to Health Education Campaigns, they now know this fun and easy way to promote hand-washing....
On a typical day at the biblioteca (library) in El Páramo, a young girl practices math skills by creating a store to sell food made out of clay, while her brother sits on the floor playing a game of memory . Other kids draw...
Victor Arboleda, a health promoter who has worked with our project in Ecuador for many years, used a loan from the community bank (CIS) to buy baby chickens, which he raised to feed his family of ten and sell for a small profit....
Doctors and nurses have been known to sink up to their knees in mud on the trek out to some rural communities at our project site in Ecuador. Transportation is not easy, so it’s no surprise why people in these communities are lining up...