Silvio Aguilar

Type of Grant: Micro-Grant

Use of Grant: To improve his corn and watermelon farm.

Amount requested: $800.00

Raised so far: $800.00

Amount still needed: $0

Silvio Aguilar lives in El Triunfo, Honduras, a coffee growing community in Choluteca. In 1985 was chasing down one of his cows when he stepped on a landmine. The cow had separated from the heard and Silvio was running after it when he felt an impact around his leg. “At first I thought I had been shot, but then I looked down and realized it was a mine. I was devastated.” Silvio’s injury was minor compared to other mine victims and at first doctors did not have to amputate his leg. Unfortunately, due to poor medical care, his leg became infected and eventually had to be amputated above his left knee. Now Silvio cultivates corn and watermelon. He needs a loan in order to improve his farm and make it generate more income.

Location: El Triunfo, Honduras
In country partner: Vida Nueva
Grant ID: 120H
Profile ID: 24

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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.