User:CRACYP

CRACYP

CRACYP is a rural reforestation and sustainable development charity in Ecuador.

CRACYP stands for Corporacion Red Arborizadora Campo y Progreso, which is Spanish for Rural Reforestation and Progress Network Corporation.

We realise that people who cannot afford food cannot afford to care about the environment, so we help raise local incomes with productive community projects. The 'price' of our help is that trees must be planted with a small percentage of the additional income. In this way everyone benefits and we achieve our goal of 'green progress', i.e. social and economic development in an environmentally friendly way.

Our projects include organic agriculture (sugar cane farming), community banks, eco-tourism and appropriate technology for processing local crops. New projects in the pipeline include recycling, irrigation systems, bio-fuels and scholarships for young Ecuadorian volunteers.

Our wiki page is ProgresoVerde.org and our website is www.progresoverde.org [1] and has information in English and Spanish. (Progreso Verde means Green Progress).