Our Work In Honduras
 

  Honduras Statistics
Population: 7,483,000
Our Project:

Because Honduras is one of the largest programs for Trees for the Future, we have established a regional office in-country. This has helped to make the Central America program more efficient and keep costs to an average of only seven cents per tree planted. Trees for the Future has over 50 partner organizations in Honduras and has been a continuing support to Peace Corps Volunteers working on sustainable development projects within the country. Our program has distributed over 20 million seeds and has produced 10 million successful tree seedlings.
 
Project update from 2005 : Field Report
 

Honduras is a country on the breaking point of an ecological disaster. Natural resources have been exhausted to a point where notable and sometimes irreversible changes are beginning to take place. One example is at the Lago de Yajoa, Honduras’s largest freshwater source. The lake is visibly losing its water level.

The coastline has receded over 300 meters just in the last 30 years and continues to drop rapidly. Another example is in the departments of Valle and Choluteca in the south of Honduras. Due to unconscionable logging practices, these lands have become dry and desolate. Very few things can now grow in these soils because desertification is starting to take hold.

 

Unfortunately, these are not two isolated examples. All over Honduras one can see signs of environmental problems: depleting natural resources, falling water levels, and poorer soils for agriculture. These factors are worsening Honduras’s economic situation and lowering an already poor quality of life for its inhabitants. Most people in rural areas are left struggling to survive.

The goal of Trees for the Future is to make reforestation both practical and sustainable. That means to demonstrate the usefulness of trees and show the value that trees possess and make the argument compelling enough for people to want to plant them.
 
Schools throughout northern Honduras
have joined our program
Girls at a school in San Pedru Sula
 
In a country like Honduras, the people who damage the environment most are the people who know the least about it. In the rural communities, most people live for survival. They cut down trees for firewood and construction and make the already receding forests even scarcer. They don’t realize the impact that they are having on their communities and on their eco-systems.
   

COMIXMUL is a great opportunity to work with this sector of the population. Seventy percent of the COMIXMUL associates are from the rural countryside (including various indigenous groups) and 90% of the COMIXMUL associates stand to make a profit off incorporating trees in their projects. The following objectives are to help meet Trees for the Futures goal of reforestation and the COMIXMUL cooperative’s goal of empowerment of and training to its associates.

 
 
 
OBJECTIVES
Objective 1: 
To increase the awareness of environmental issues and the understanding of proper utilization of resources by the associates of the COMIXMUL cooperative by 80% within 3 months.
 
Objective 2: 
To decrease the deforestation of Honduras with the associates of the COMIXMUL cooperative by planting an average of 150 trees per associate within 7 months.
 
Objective 3: 
 To lower input costs of projects of the associates of COMIXMUL by 10% within 3 years.
 
Objective 4: 
To increase the output of projects of the associates of COMIXMUL by 10% within 3 years.
 
Dave examining seedlings with local technicians
Coffee Seedlings
 
Current Participants:
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 AECOPIJOL Expectacion Sanchez Frente parque contiguo a Municipalidad Morazan Yoro
   
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 Agrogenet Ernesto Ochoa Centro Comer. Miramontes, 2o. Nivel #2 Tegucigalpa DC
 
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 AHDAE Rigo Hernandez/ Oscar Ramos Col. Bendeck 4a calle y 4a. Ave El Progreso Yoro
   
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 AHPROCAFE Rafael Perdomo Contiguo Bazar Lorena o Santa Cecilia La Esperanza Intibuca
 
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 AJOPADIH Rafael Caceres Col. Los Llanos Bloque 20 Casa 2820 Tegucigalpa DC
 
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 ALCAHUMO Carlos Motiño Oficina COHDEFOR rdo. Alcides Rodriguez Choluteca Choluteca
 
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 Asoc. Prod Agrop. Oriente (APAO) Pablo Ordoñez/Jane Cyurren (PCV) Oficina ARSAGRO fte.
 
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 CETY Donaldo Alvarez Frente parque contiguo a Municipalidad El Negrito Yoro
 
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 CIDH Nelson L. Gonzalez Bo. Cristales, Fte. Ecuela Socorro Sorel Trujillo Colon
 
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 CODDEFFAGOLF Justo Garcia/J. Varela Calle Principal Bo. El Centro San Lorenzo Valle
 
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 COHDEFOR regional El Paraiso Mirna Jessenia Ramos Bo. El Centrro Danli El Paraiso
 
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 COHDEFOR Regional Litoral Atlantico Julio C. Torres/Pablo Mar. Km. 8 Carr. La Ceiba Tela La Ceiba Atlantida
 
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 Coop Apaguiz Danli El Paraiso
 
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 Coop Subirana Ivan Rodriguez Coop. Subirana Santa Rita Yoro
 
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 Coop Mixta de Mujeres Comixmul Edwin Urbina/Magda Lopez Bo. El Centro 2a.ave . S. E. Siguatepeque Comayagüa
 
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 COSTA Orlando Henriquez 1/2 cuadra Sur Policlinica Bo. San Fco. El Progreso Yoro
 
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 Cuerpo de Paz Honduras (Central & South) Luis Estrada Ave. Rep. de Chile #401 Col. Palmira Tegucigalpa DC
 
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 Cuerpo de Paz Honduras (West) Agustin Cabrera Domicilio conocido La Esperanza Intibuca
 
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 Fundacion de Parques Nacionales Gisella Haddad Parque NNUU El Picacho Tegucigalpa DC
 
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 IHCAFE (NGO) Gerardo Torres SPS Cortes
 
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 Instituto Francisco Morazan Carlos Bonilla Domicilio conocido Baracoa Cortes
 
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 MOPAWI (*) Steve Collins Domicilio Conocido Belem Gracias a Dios
 
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 Movimiento MOCAFENA (*) Carlos Muñoz Domicilio conocido Rdo. Oficinas COPA Tocoa Yoro
 
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 Municipio de Choluteca Pedro Gonzalez Palacio Municipal Choluteca Choluteca
 
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 Municipalidad de Duyure Juan Guillén/Diana Villela (PCV) Palacio Municipal Duyure Choluteca
 
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 Municipalidad de El Negrito Cesar Alfaro (UMA) Palacio Municipal El Negrito Yoro
 
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 Municipalidad de El Progreso (*) Otilio Mondragon (UMA) Palacio Municipal El Progreso Yoro
 
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 Municipalidad de Intibuca Juan Francisco Garcia (UMA) Palacio Municipal La Esperanza Intibuca
 
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 Municipalidad de Juticalpa Sing. Santo Cruz Palacio Municipal Juticalpa Olancho
 
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 Municipalidad de Lepaera Humberto Murillo (UMA) Palacio Municipal Lepaera Lempira
 
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 Municipalidad de Morazan (*) Juan Carlos Ortiz Palacio Municipal Morazan Yoro
 
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 Municipalidad de Saba Olver Velasquez (UMA) Palacio Municipal Saba Colon
 
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 Municipalidad de San Francisco de Yojoa Gerardo Sanchez (UMA) Palacio Municipal San Fco. Yojoa Cortes
 
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 Municipalidad de Santa Rita Sebastian Guzman (UMA) Palacio Municipal Santa Rita Yoro
 
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 Municipalidad de Siguatepeque (*) Job Eli Arita Lara Palacio Municipal Siguatepeque Comayagüa
 
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 Municipalidad de Santa Fé, Depto. Colon Cesar Cayetano (UMA) Palacio Maunicipal Santa Fé Colon
 
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 Municipalidad de Trinidad Roy Lara/Nirman Genaro (UMA) Palacio Municipal Trinidad Santa Barbara
 
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 Municipalida de Tela Miguel Ordoñez (UMA asistente) Palacio Municipal Tela Atlantida
 
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 Municipalidad de Villanueva Fernando Fernandez Palacio Municipal frente al Parque Villanueva Cortes
 
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 Municipalidad de Yorito Arturo Zuniga (UMA) Palacio Municipal Yorito Yoro
 
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 Municipio de Arenal Luis Andrade Palacio Municipal Arenal Yoro
 
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 Patronato aldea Buenos Aires Carlos Alvarenga Domicilio conocido Buenos Aires Cortes
 
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 PROFOR Luis Estrada Ofic.PROFOR Col. Palmira Av. Rep. Panama #2043 Tegucigalpa DC
 
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 PROMADERAH Francico Urbina 6a calle, 5a. Ave. Sur Eq. con Policlinica El Progreso Yoro
 
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 Sistemas Educativos de Hond. (SEDHO) Lic. Gumercindo Guillen (padre) 2 y 3 calle, 5 ave. Edif A-3 SPS Cortes
 
 
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