Appropriate Skills Training Canete Village, Peru April 1995 - February 1996 Funded by: Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Implemented by: ICA Peru, ICA Japan and local people
Canete District, located 200 km south of Lima, has some 150,000 residents and over 200 communities. Most residents are farmers and have to work all day to earn about 1.25 dollars. Looking for a better place than Canete, many people moved to cities and ended up in a slum. ICA conducted health care projects in ten villages in this area from 1992 through 1994, and agriculture projects in four villages in 1995. As a result of leadership training, health improvement campaign and agriculture technical training, many family-run-farms were made. This project is to cover even poorer areas in the mountains in the future.
	1. The people of Canete village have very low incomes and find it difficult to meet many basic human needs. The appropriate skills training conducted in this project helped villagers to begin small-scale businesses on their own.
ECO-FARM
	2. Opportunities were created for villagers to talk and exchange ideas with experts and other villagers about starting eco-farms. Here villagers listen to a technical expert's advice.
	3. Villagers in the Paullo area building an eco-farm using knowledge and suggestions from the technical expert.
	4. Low-cost, local materials such as bamboo and sun-dried bricks were used for building eco-farms.
	5. This roof and walls are made out of bamboo.
	6. The inside of the eco-farm building is divided into small rooms in order to separate small animals that will be raised (guinea pigs, ducks, and rabbits).
	7. This is a completed eco-farm made of bamboo and sun dried bricks in the Paullo district. A total of 12 eco-farms were built.
Guinea Pigs
	8. Here a small-animal breeding expert is teaching villagers how to raise guinea pigs.
	9. At the eco-farm training is key to motivation, commitment, and quality breeding work. The training is open to all people in the communities and plays an important role in providing new opportunities for self-sufficiency.
	10. Good guinea pig stock purchased at the Agricultural Reseach Institute will enable better breeding.
Ducks & Rabbits
	11. An expert giving advice and lessons on how to raise ducks to village women.
	12. Ducks are easy to raise and can become an important income source.
	13. Rabbits raised in the farm.
Beehives
	14. The sale of honey helps villagers increase their income and improve nourishment.
	15. Training in Bee cultivation to produce honey was introduced.
	16. 40 kg of honey is produced in the beehives here a year. Villagers sell it at markets in Lima.
Bio-Orchards
	17. Seeds selected to be sowed are for vegetables recommended for a healthy, balanced diet.
	18. A young villager learning the use of a fumigation pump at a multi-association bio-orchard. F?éFruit trees are grown in addition vegetables.
	19. This woman is using techniques learned at the agricultural training course in her garden.
Handicraft Training
	20. Handicraft technician preparing straw to be used in teaching how to make multi-purpose mats.
	21. The mats are used to make roofs and wall of villagers' houses.
	22. Making baskets. Products here will be sold at summer events in town to help increase family incomes.
Comprehenisve Training
	23. About 30 People including women from nine different communities participated in each training course.
	24. Mr. Campos, the Mayor of the city of Lunahuana, visited one of the training courses to encourage the local people.
	25. In order to share their experiences with others, participants write what they learned on cards and put them on the wall.
Spreading the Ideas to Others
	26. Villagers display a first aid cabinet at a health fair. Awareness about good health practices was promoted through such health fairs.
	27. The project helped inspire people with confidence and a volunteer spirit. Voluntary community clean-up activities were one result of increased community cooperation.
	28. Here a women's group works to spread the word about their activities to people in other locations.

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