HerbAid

Project facts

Project promoter:
No Gravity
Project Number:
SK10-0007
Target groups
People at risk of poverty
Status:
Completed
Initial project cost:
€66,418
Final project cost:
€66,418
From EEA Grants:
€ 59,776
The project is carried out in:
Banskobystrický kraj

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Description

Large part of population in rural areas have not many opportunities of income, so living conditions are often poor. However, there is lack of herbs and herbal products on a market so it is straight link to use the opportunity and make rural people growing herbs and producing herbal products to generate their income. Therefore objective of this project is to strengthen capacity and ability of rural communities to produce, market and sell rural products, made of herbs. The outcome of the project will be developed and running scheme of production, procession and distribution of herbs and herbal products grown by local communities in Ľubietová and its region. The project will support the following: establishing of herbs production and distribution centre, providing 50 persons with necessary training and seeds and developing of development and marketing strategy. Main target group are people in poverty/risk of poverty and socially excluded groups in region, also customers will benefit.

Summary of project results

Large part of population in rural areas does not have many opportunities of access to income, so living conditions are often poor. However, there is lack of herbs and herbal products on a market so it is straight link to use the opportunity and make rural people growing herbs and producing herbal products to generate their income. Therefore objective of this project is to strengthen capacity and ability of rural communities to produce, market and sell rural products, made of herbs. The outcome of the project will be developed and running scheme of production, procession and distribution of herbs and herbal products grown by local communities in Ľubietová and its region. The project will support the following: establishing of herbs production and distribution centre, providing 50 persons with necessary training and seeds and developing of development and marketing strategy. Main target group are people in poverty/risk of poverty and socially excluded groups in region, also customers will benefit.

Summary of bilateral results