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The Palomas Family Cooperative
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La Cooperativa de la Frontera de Palomas y Chihuahua
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The Mission of The Palomas Family Cooperative
To empower women and their families to work together, developing skills and using new resources, to improve their lives:
1. Developing economic opportunities through education and training to increase
annual income to reduce extreme poverty and hunger.
2. Reducing energy costs through the use of alternative technologies to ensure
environmental
sustainability.
3. Providing
resources to improve family health, and reduce childhood mortality.
4. Increasing the availability of nutritional foods through bio-intensive gardening
and other programs to reduce hunger.
5. Reversing chronic and communicable diseases through education and training
Following our hearts, and in solidarity with the Mission of Our Lady of Las Palomas Hermitage and Retreat Center
to be an Inter-faith community of contemplation, prayer and action, committed to a life of simplicity, presence, and service in right relationship with God, as we understand God, and all of Creation, we embraced the
Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations.
The MDGs that the 192 countries of the
United Nations committed to achieving by 2015 include:
1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
2. Achieve universal primary education
3. Promote gender equality and empower women
4. Reduce child mortality
5. Improve maternal health
6. Reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
7. Ensure environmental sustainability
8. And develop a global partnership for development
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