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The Yachay Initiative is a registered nonprofit organization that focuses on fostering youth education and empowerment as a vehicle for community development and poverty alleviation.〔Caroline Laroche, ("Alumni Project: The Yachay Initiative" ), 04/08/2011〕 Founded in 2010 and named after the Quichua (Ecuadorian) verb “to learn”, the Yachay Initiative (YI) has projects in Ecuador, Germany, and Scotland.〔Jeff Bell, ("Victorian helps Ecuadorean kids" ), 13/05/2011〕 The Yachay Initiative is registered in Canada and has received support from the Jacobs Foundation, the Heinz-Peter und Annelotte Koch Stiftung, and Jacobs University Bremen.〔Jacobs University Bremen, ("A student project: TheYachay Initiative" )〕 ==Ecuador== In Ecuador, YI works with community schools to offer educational leadership programs, while also working with local families to develop organic vegetable gardens as a sustainable source of nutrients.〔Jeff Bell, ("Victorian helps Ecuadorean kids" ), 13 May 2011〕 A pilot project was completed in Ecuador in 2010 to test these programs, followed by an investigative project titled “Phase II”, that aimed to co-develop enhanced versions of both programs together with the local communities. Phase "II" is now complete and ongoing projects are scheduled to start in Ecuador in 2012. The ongoing project to start in 2012 has stated the following aims: to run 10 Yachay Youth Leadership programs with 250 students in 6 communities, to support 70 families to build and sustain their first family vegetable gardens, to run a school lunch program for students participating in the Leadership programm, and to launch a new Yachay Youth Internship program, both locally and internationally.〔(Yachay Initiative Website )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Yachay Initiative」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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