Víctor Manuel Ferrufino

Type of Grant: Micro-Grant

Use of Grant: To expand his farm to grow vegetables.

Amount requested: $800.00

Raised so far: $0.00

Amount still needed: $800

Víctor Manuel Ferrufino lost his leg in Trojes, El Paraíso, Honduras, a small coffee farming village in Southern Honduras. Víctor was herding cows when all of a sudden a mine exploded beneath him. He was carried to a hospital and then had to spend 6 months in the capital recovering from his amputation.

Location: Trojes, Honduras
In country partner: Vida Nueva
Grant ID: 121H
Profile ID: 25

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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We've created this website to be a place where people who work in the coffee industry and coffee consumers can make a connection with the coffee farmers, workers and their families who deal with landmines on a daily basis.

 

Look through the profiles here and direct your money to be part of a Micro-Grant to someone trying to work, create a business or improve an existing one, or send someone in their family to school. Micro-Grants do not have to be repaid. They are one way the Trust can provide resources for people to help themselves.

 

Micro-Grants are handled via PayPal through the Polus Center for Social and Economic Development.

 

The Coffeelands Landmine Victims’ Trust works in partnership with the Polus Center, a non-profit, non-governmental organization (NGO) dedicated to supporting people with disabilities since 1979.

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