Nancy Xiomara Vielman García, 25 years old

Choabajito Alto village, San Martín Jilotepeque. 

 

Nancy is a local promoter at the Choabajito Alto strong family center. She is married and has a 7-year-old boy and an almost 2-year-old girl.

 

“I have participated in leadership, nutrition, nutritive recipes, health, agriculture and handicrafts training sessions at the strong family center, and also have received talks which help women know we have good skills and capacities we can use and allow us to be better mothers, even learning how to treat our children better”.

 

She thinks she gets important benefits at the strong family center, mainly food for her kids and learns to prepare nutritious recipes and do early childhood stimulation. She also receives seeds for her garden and some fabrics and threads for her handicrafts.

 

“My family has experienced very positive changes since I have participated at the strong family center we learned many new skills, thanks to the ABPD technicians. I can give injections now, something that not many people can do in this village and that other organizations do not teach people. We did not have latrine before, we had to share one with my parents, but ABPD provided us the materials and the skills to build it and now we have our own latrine. I also can prepare more nutrious food now for my children and ABPD has shown me how to grow vegetables. I harvest a part of my vegetables every month, and use them to cook at home because my children love them. I have had excess production, so my neighbors come to buy some carrots, radishes ad cucumbers. This has made me see I can have a bigger garden and make some profit from it so I already have started fencing another piece of land and I expect to have vegetables all the year for my family and to have some income.”

 

Nancy wants to keep on participating and learning at the center A she thinks a skilled woman can give a better future to her kids, pay for their education and provide a decent life and home. She believes her house is humble, with only a kitchen and a bedroom for the whole family, made of wood and metal sheets on the roof, and with no floor. She thanks ABPD for the latrine, which is a big improvement in their quality of life, but she would also like to have a better house, specially have a floor and an improved stove.

 

“Thank you ABPD for all your support given to me and all the group of women participating at the strong family center, God bless you.