Growers First works with impoverished farming communities
to improve the quality of life, impart hope, share faith, and create positive sustainable change
for this generation, and the next, and the next....

There are a lot of exciting things happening at Growers First, and we want to tell you all about it! Consider how you can participate in having a tremendous impact on impoverished farming communities in Central America. YOU can build something valuable in partnership with Growers First and truly change lives for generations to come, through your financial contributions and through joining us on a service trip.

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 - Projects- 

Education 
Sea-to-Sea (Costa a Costa) bicycle ride (C2C) in Honduras

• Raised $60,000 for education programs and awareness in country (January 2016)

Faith
Leadership conference with the Mixe people in the mountains of Oaxaca (February 2016)

Pastor's Community Conference in Oaxaca

• Two-day two-village outreach focused on community building; also trained community outreach volunteers to assemble and fit wheelchairs, and to fit people for eyeglasses (September 2016) 

Oaxaca leadership conference 

• (Spiritual) Leadership conference for pastors and leaders and their first born children from the Growers First network—looking toward bringing in the next generation of indigenous leaders; opportunity for them to network
• Distributed more than 4,000 Bibles and other Christian literature; and 3,000 health handbooks

Agriculture/Economics
A GF team visited coffee farms in Honduras for follow up and quality control with coffee growers and buyers (January 2016)

Trip to Oaxaca to deliver 50 wheelchairs and 200 pairs of eyeglasses to growers and their families/communities (April 2016)

SCAA (economics) Speciality Coffee Association of America in Atlanta represented GF farmers (April 2016)

Growers First began working women's cooperative

• The cooperative is 700 women in the Mixe/Zapotec mountain region of Mexico, where they do economic and social justice work (June 2016)

Launched the El Majon Indigenous Ecology center

• An 18-acre farm in Oaxaca where we planted at that time heirloom hibiscus, coffee trees, 500 heirloom blue agave plants, and heirloom corn and introduced 100 chickens (June 2016)
  
  

Second visit to El Majon Indigenous Ecology Center

• Planted four dozen palm trees  (November 2016 )

Delivered goats to the Mixe at El Majon in Oaxaca (December 2016)

Healthcare

​Ixtepec - August 2020

• In the midst of the Covid19 Pandemic, Growers First has been able to help and provide thousands of masks for the hospitals and for the people in Oaxaca

Medical Brigade, (May 2019)​

•  Santa María Nativitas Coatlan - We had a medical brigade where we were able to help 500 families, by providing them with doctors, dentists, nutrition, physical therapy and glasses.

Oaxaca Trip

• Poured concrete floors and painting for a community center/church in San Augustin; medical clinic (chiropractic and eye exams/glasses—fitted 873 pairs of reading glasses (November 2016)

Built a second story for the Growers First offices in Oaxaca

• To accommodate a hostel for families of sick children who are being treated at the local hospital; Growers First provides the fund for food on every other week and cook meals at the hostel for patients' families (January/February/July 2016) - dedicated the building in July with 35 leaders from the Mixe/Zapotec mountain region