Elsa Marina Cálix

Type of Grant: Micro-Grant

Use of Grant: To improve and expand her business.

Amount requested: $700.00

Raised so far: $700.00

Amount still needed: $0

Elsa Marina Cálix was only 15 when she stepped on a landmine. Elsa was working with her parents, cutting coffee, when she took a step and an explosion threw her several yards away. She was taken to a hospital where doctors had to amputate her right leg. Now, 15 years later, Elsa is a single mother and lives with her daughter and grandmother in El Paraíso, Honduras. She grows and sells pigs to support her family. With a loan Elsa could expand her business by buying more pigs,and more food to support a larger herd.

Location: El Paraíso, Honduras
In country partner: Vida Nueva
Grant ID: 116H
Profile ID: 20

A Micro-Grant was awarded to Elsa Marina,
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People Affected

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.