Students partnered with FIPAH workers to help educate local Honduran farmers impacted by the devastation of their crops due to climate change and crop diseases. This crop shortage impedes farmers’ success and profits and impacts the surrounding community suffering from lack of food. Students worked with FIPAH to promote seed banking and thus preserve hardy varieties of crops and also to raise awareness to children and farmers about the impending flood and drought periods that come along with climate change. To further enrich the local community, students worked in schools to help teach and further develop the curriculum.

• Engaged in education initiatives with FIPAH
• Shadowed FIPAH staff (interning in the field and offices)
• Worked with youth cooperatives in three areas, learning about seed banking and other programs
• Made a documentary about FIPAH’s mission to alleviate devastation from crop diseases and climate change