TerraMica- Our Impact on coffee-growing communities

When families thrive, their communities thrive.

“We start with charity, but at some point, charity must be transformed into sustainable, positive behavior.” – Ed Apffel.
TerraMica’s My Healthy Home education and community intervention helps families by:

Decreasing waterborne illness in communities:

Ensuring access to clean, safe water
Increasing access to latrine facilities
Providing means for households to practice safe water purification
Education on effective hand washing techniques
Enabling households to have clean and safe water storage

Decreasing other environmental illnesses:

Using safe waste disposal facilities
Ensuring homes are free from pests and infestations
Replacing dirt floors with cement floors reduces transmission of diseases from ground by 80%

Developing Healthy Family Relationships

Establishing healthy communication practices for families
Teaching family members to respect the dignity and value of each member
Training husband and wife to work as a team
Promoting the safety and well–being of women and children
Women are supported and viewed as equal to men
Gender–based domestic violence is decreased
Children are encouraged to attend and remain in full–time education

Improving availability and sustainable management of clean water and sanitation

Composting organic waste
Disposing of animal waste safely
Appropriate processing and disposal of non–organic waste

Assessing Our Impact

To ensure we are meeting our goals of supporting and stabilizing families and helping their communities to thrive, we have created a comprehensive evaluation plan to understand both the needs in the communities where we work and the impact of our interventions.

We take a grassroots approach to collecting data from local communities to enable families‘ voices to be fully heard regarding the changes they feel they need within their community. Through baseline, midline and endline evaluations conducted by our staff (who are members of these communities), we gather data on water and sanitation, infrastructure and social issues in accordance with humanitarian standards. This data is evaluated by our team in order to make informed decisions that best serve the needs of each region.