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After one year, the BUILD-Santa Anita Community Development Plan is finally being put in to action. BUILD is sponsoring and conducting more than a dozen projects in the community, some in conjunction with partner NGO, FUNDAP.

Ten BUILD students, a group comprised of members from both the 2008 and 2009 teams, will spend one month in Santa Anita conducting a large-scale socioeconomic diagnostic, constructing the 25,000 plant-capacity seed nursery, and teaching introductory computer classes, among other projects.

Over Spring Break, four members of the BUILD Exec Team will accompany a new group of nine BUILD students to Santa Anita. The new team will be conducting research on a variety of topics, including the guerrilla reintegration process, racism and civil society, and rule of law in post-war Guatemala. As the new team familiarizes themselves with the people and places of Santa Anita, the members of the Team will work towards the completion of the 2009 Community Development Plan (CDP) with the junta directiva (board of directors) of the cooperative.

Mass poverty is one of the world’s most pressing problems and daunting challenges. The compelling facts are well known:

• Over one billion people – almost one in five – live in extreme poverty, subsisting on less than a dollar a day.
• If the poverty line was raised to $2 a day, more than half of the world’s population would be living in poverty.
• Over 100 million primary school-age children cannot afford to go to school.
• Eight million people die each year simply because they lack the means to survive.