News Articles - Sustainable Harvest International (SHI)

Learn how a micro-loan changed the Xol family of Belize!

My name is Pedro Xol and I am fifty-three years old. I have been working with SHI-Belize field trainer, Herminio Sho, in my community of Sundaywood for about three years. Last year, my wife started a little shop in our home selling chips and juice. Since I am now too old to work hard on our farm like I used to, I told Herminio that I would like to make…

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Clean Latrines

SHI-Belize participants Milton and Andrea Coc reside in the village of Boom Creek, Belize with their five children and have been working with SHI-Belize program for two years. Living in Boom Creek is a dream come true for the Coc family. They have access to vast amount of land for farming and a peaceful community to raise their children. For years, however, they faced a difficult problem. Milton Coc explains, Like…

For Rita Julia, working with SHI has been life changing

Since I began working with SHI, so much has changed in my life, especially now that I understand things such as how to use chicken manure and rice husks for fertilizer. My field trainer, Daysbeth, has shown me how to ferment this into a liquid mix that is very hot at first, but after ten days it is ready to be used. This year we planted a small coffee plantation…

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Planting For My Children

One Honduran participant farmer in El Tule, Santa Barbara has begun to reforest his farm one row at a time. Every afternoon Don Jesus carefully packs a dozen tree seedlings from the community tree nursery on the back of his horse. He leads the horse out to his farm with his children, where they run a piece of twine from one end of the farm to the next. Then…

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