KUCHARA: Your food, one generation away.
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Founding Story
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Zero Hunger, Decent Work and Economic Growth, Responsible Consumption and Production.
In 2012, with other friends from university, we founded Zoostener, a volunteer organization of university students. Zoostener connects young professionals of agrarian careers who want to travel and to have a broader vision of rural development, with communities who need technical support in different areas of agriculture. Communities inform about the topics they need, and during vacations, the young professionals travel to their communities to share workshops and talks about the topics they request, in exchange of food and a place to stay during the intervention time.
Our strategic partners are SUCO (Canadian NGO) and Vacas Felices (small enterprise). Both organizations have been working in Matucana (the area of intervention where we will implement our first Kuchara School) . SUCO is working with rural youth giving them access to agroecological education. Vacas Felices is a social enterprise who works with organic milk from small farmers. They are going to help us to have a better understanding of the zone and the challenges rural youth are facing there.