In Country Partners
The Coffeelands Landmine Victims’ Trust partners with other skilled non-profit organizations worldwide to bring about change. In Country Partners have been in operation for years, have a wealth of experience and understand the diverse social and economic make up of their communities. Through these partnerships, landmine victims in the coffeelands get rehabilitation services that are relevant and address a broad range challenges.
Some of the In Country Partners responsibilities include: making people and their local communities aware of the Trust, screening applications to the Trust, and distributing Trust funds through Micro-Grants, and the provision of Mobility Aids and Emergency Services. They also provide news and updates about people who receive funds, which will be posted to the Coffeelands Landmine Victims’ Trust website.
Colombian Coffee Federation
The Colombian Coffee Federation (FNC) is entirely owned and controlled by Colombia’s coffee farmers, (cafeteros) of whom there are over 500,000. The Federation helps these farmers achieve benefits otherwise inaccessible to them, such as fair wages.
Tecnovo Foundation
The Tecnovo Foundation is a non-profit organization in Bogotá, Colombia that generates employment and job training for persons with physical and mental disabilities.
CIREC
CIREC in a holistic rehabilitation center in Bogotá a, Colombia. CIREC provides services such as prosthetic and orthotic outreach, and physical and psychological rehabilitation.
Clear Path International
Clear Path International provides victim assistance services in Southeast Asia. Their mission is to “remove obstacles that stand in the way of the health, safety and development of children and their families.”
CONADI
CONADI (consejo nacional para la atención de las personas con discapacidad) works to improve the lives of persons with disabilities and achieve social inclusion and integration through political means.
Landmine Survivor’s Network
The Landmine Survivor’s Network (LSN) was founded in 1998 by two landmine survivors. They use a “survivor centric” approach to help landmine victims physically, emotionally, socially, and financially.
Walking Unidos
Walking Unidos is a prosthetic and orthotic outreach center in León, Nicaragua. Walking Unidos provides hundreds of prosthetics and orthotics every year and offers repair services. About 50% of their employees are prosthetic users themselves.
PLUSAA
Located in León, Nicaragua, PLUSAA manufactures custom fitted wheelchairs. PLUSAA staff also does outreach services ensuring recipients are fitted in their wheelchairs correctly and know how to care for their wheelchairs.
Centro Liderazgo
The Leadership Center works to build the capacity of local disability organizations, supports students with disabilities at the University of León, provides on-going workshops, policy analysis and advocacy through forums and training exercises, and facilitates consciousness-raising demonstration projects that provide valued educational and economic opportunities for persons with mobility disabilities.
Capadife
CAPADIFE opened in Managua in October 2004 through a partnership between Walking Unidos, the Polus Center and the Red Cross Special Fund for the Disabled. In 2005, CAPADIFE provided 257 prostheses, 75 orthoses, 82 wheelchairs and 191 crutches to 304 people; 146 amputees, including 29 landmine survivors, received lodging and meals from the center during their treatment.
Vida Nueva
The Vida Nueva Prosthetic Outreach Program is located in Choluteca, Honduras. Vida Nueva provides prosthetics and orthotics to the entire Southern Zone of Honduras. In 2006 they provided 69 prosthetics and 205 orthotics.