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Community Change in Peru’s Poorest Districts of the Upper Amazon

Grand Reopening

For some time now I am familiar with the work that Future Generations is developing in Las Moras, it interested me because it makes the community participate in solving its own problems, first raising the people’s consciousness about it own needs and from that must be born the ideas to solve them and the idea that they can develop themselves. 
--Engineer Juan Deza Falcon
Manager of Community Services of the Provincial Municipality of Huánuco

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Women Improving Health

Afghan Community Health Worker with Baby

The Need: Death during childbirth is an every day occurrence in Afghanistan, which has among the highest rates of maternal and child mortality in the world. Many deaths can be prevented by changes in lifestyle and basic health care in the home.

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Women's Empowerment

Community meeting

Across five districts in Arunachal Pradesh, more than 150 women's groups mobilize social change. They:

  • Improve health in the home
  • Change practices such as child marriage, alcholism, and violence against women
  • Promote kitchen gardens
  •  Increase income through micro-credit programs

They even sing their own songs about how their lives have changed with the help of Future Generations Arunachal.

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Health Care for the Unreached in The Andes Highlands

Cusco Child

The Cusco Region has among the highest rates of maternal-child mortality and chronic child malnutrition in Peru. Although the government has established primary health care facilities in these highlands, the indigenous communities do not use them due to distance and poverty combined with language and cultural barriers.

Future Generations makes 28 primary health care facilities more effective by transforming them through community participation and stronger linkages with local government.

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