24 August 2005
Nueva Vision
Nueva Vision Area Development Programme (ADP) is located in the Langue Municipality in Honduras’s Valle Department, 136km south of the national capital of Tegucigalpa.
More than 80 per cent of the ADP’s 18,000 people live in rural areas. Education and health services are poor and there are limited economic opportunities in the area.
Nueva Vision means ‘New Vision’. Through Nueva Vision ADP, which started in 2005, World Vision is supporting the community’s new vision for the future.
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 Nueva Vision ADP
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Education
There are eight preschools and 15 primary schools in Nueva Vision ADP. The schools lack furniture and school equipment and there is a shortage of teachers. Due to low household incomes, few children attend school. The adult literacy rate is 58 per cent.
In its initial stages the ADP is measuring the levels of education within the community and promoting school attendance by all children. Strategic alliances with the Ministry of Education and local organisations will help support needy children to attend school.
Health
Although there are six health centres within the ADP, they lack medicine and are usually staffed by interns as part of their training, and not qualified staff. There is a lack of safe drinking water and 98 per cent of people do not have access to sanitary latrines. Malnutrition is common.
Initially the ADP will focus on cooperating with existing organisations to improve access to safe water and promote growing of crops that will provide nutritious food. Further health initiatives will be put in place over the life of the ADP.
Agriculture and income generation
The best farming land in Nueva Vision ADP is owned by a few property-owners, so the majority of people must rent land at high cost. Families produce corn, beans and maize for their own use, but outputs are low. A lack of water during summer months makes farming difficult and causes migration to urban areas. Some sell their produce and other people manufacture hammocks and rope, but unemployment is common and most people survive on around US$2 a day.
World Vision Installs irrigation systems, promotes crop diversification and educates people in modern agricultural methods that will increase farm productivity. New orchards, support for small scale livestock and poultry production and promotion of small businesses will help to increase community incomes.
Sustainable development
It is envisaged that by September 2018 the community will be resourced and able to continue managing development initiatives without World Vision’s direct assistance. We will keep you updated on the community’s progress.
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