Our Work
Our Work
Four program areas working together to create sustainable change in the Caribbean and Latin America
Argentum Oblinit
Silver Lining
"Catastrophes don't reduce people to poverty, our inaction does."
At Fertilis Terrae, our goal is to help our fellow human beings thrive. One way we aim to do this is by lessening the human suffering caused by situations of conflict and natural and anthropic disasters.
Communities emerging from situations of conflict or recovering from disaster tend to go through prolonged periods of economic malaise.
The Argentum Oblinit program focuses on communities in the aftermath of conflict or declared disasters (whether natural or man-made) with targeted interventions that shorten the period of economic malaise usually attendant after catastrophe. We help to create an environment suitable for rapid and sustainable economic growth and development.
We have noted, with alarm, the increasing frequency and magnitude of scale of seismic and hydro-meteorological events that impact the Caribbean and Latin American regions. We have developed a toolkit of targeted interventions that are designed to assist in the re-establishment of sustainable income-generation and which limit the temporal impact of economic malaise and depression that usually follows these events.
Conventional post-catastrophy interventions tend to focus on the re-population of geographic areas. This approach often neglects the establishment of a sustainable base for economic empowerment and development...
Fertilis Terrae's focus, through Argentum Oblinit, is to ensure that communities devise and implement their own sustainable long-term economic and social development strategies that provide opportunities for growth and progress for all their members. Our approach is people-centered and focuses primarily on:
- Women & girls.
- Individuals who traditionally have been denied opportunities for and access to finance and education.
- Indigenous groups and other vulnerable minorities.
- Established, community-centered small businesses and cooperatives.
If you would like to know how you can contribute to this program, please don't hesitate to contact us.
Contact UsFecundum Mentibus
Fertile Minds
"Good ideas are put on paper while great ideas are put in motion"
At Fertilis Terrae, we believe that entrepreneurship is a vital tool in the fight against poverty, especially extreme poverty.
The Fecundum Mentibus program works with individuals and communities with low or no real sustainable income to turn their bankable ideas into thriving businesses. Our approach is organic, meaning that the impetus begins at the grassroots level with the individual or community, and we provide the necessary support to move ideas from the abstract stage to a sustainable and productive reality.
This requires the provision of general assistance to start-ups including mentorship and hand-holding.
Fecundum Mentibus marries local resources and talent with a mixture of public, private and foreign investments in order to convert innovative business ideas that are scalable and apt for duplication into bankable projects.
We utilize indigenous resources where possible and facilitate market sourcing and penetration efforts. We prioritize individuals or groups with no - limited financial and other resources or who are traditionally marginalized.
The only criteria are that:
- the initial business idea must originate with the individual or group;
- the idea must have some innovative component(s) and;
- the idea must be sustainable (able to sustain itself and generate profits while having no permanent, negative environmental impacts).
If you would like to know how you can contribute to this program, please don't hesitate to contact us.
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Fertilis Solis
Fertile Soils
"Were the hungry, the malnourished and the poor to have a role in the production and supply of food, we would have much less of all three."
At Fertilis Terrae, we believe that food is a basic need. Unfortunately, it is a challenge for the most vulnerable among us to acquire food for daily subsistence.
The Fertilis Solis program seeks to encourage individuals and families to grow their own food, with sufficient surplus to generate a sustainable income when directly sold at market or put through some value-adding process then sold.
It emphasizes the adaptation of avant-garde intensive farming techniques and technologies to maximize the use of, and yields from, small spaces without the use of pesticides.
It makes further contributions to the local economies by substituting the costlier elements for more sustainable, affordable and readily available local alternatives.
In its initial stage, this program takes the form of pilot projects or demonstration plots to prove efficacy and promote the initiative.
If you would like to know how you can contribute to this program, please don't hesitate to contact us.
Contact UsFertilis Vitae
Fertile Lives
"Poverty is about a lack of opportunity, not the presence of laziness. At the very least, everyone should have a chance to do well"
At Fertilis Terrae, we value every life. We also believe that each individual ought to have access to real opportunities to identify and fully exploit their potential for their personal benefit as well as that of their family and wider community.
The Fertilis Vitae program initiative focuses on women and children (including the unborn) to provide the children with an environment that promotes healthy and sustainable growth and development. Children are the future, so they must be our present concern.
As with everything else we do here at Fertilis Terrae, this initiative is people-centered with a cautious eye on the economic wellbeing of our clients and how this impacts macroeconomic growth prospects.
Fertilis Vitae prioritizes single-parent, especially female-headed, households. It identifies and/or creates opportunities for these women and their children to improve their immediate circumstances and overall life prospects by twinning immediate, short-term and longer-term development and social assistance strategies.
If you would like to know how you can contribute to this program, please don't hesitate to contact us.
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