Results at the end of the project (December 2011) include: This program reduced poverty and promoted integration of marginalized social groups and communities by attaining equal and joint local socioeconomic development. Between 2007 and 2011, L’Œuvre Léger’s international programs included 207 projects in 25 African, Asian and Latin American countries implemented with the collaboration of 129 local partner organizations. Results of L’Œuvre Léger’s international development programs revolve around five strategic sectors: institutional strengthening, human rights and democracy, economic development and the environment, health, education and literacy. Institutional strengthening: In Honduras, a capacity-strengthening program allowed an association of community supply stores to diversify its services to members, open a centre for the supply of basic products for a network of 15 cooperatives, and establish a savings program with preferential interest rates for the 2,718 members, who are in majority women, in the poor neighbourhoods of Tegucigalpa. Human rights and democracy: In the Philippines, 55,000 men and women are more aware of their rights and the due processes available to them to stop abuse and violence towards women and children. Awareness campaigns have also reached more than 37,000 children that now know their rights for protection against any form of physical violence and exploitation. Law enforcement officers trained in 17 regional schools received training on children protection Economic development: In India, the program supported the creation of 55 credit unions, servicing 1,783 women members who have gradually improved their economic conditions through access to credit and the creation of new income generating activities. The median monthly income of women tripled from CAN $0.63 to $2.10. Health: In Honduras, the program promoted access to health care for an isolated rural population through the production and rehabilitation of natural medicine designed with local medicinal plants. A team of 135 health care promoters were deployed daily reaching 1,400 families of farmers growing medicinal plants and living on this trade. Education and literacy: In Burkina Faso, 155 young school dropouts received training on agricultural management and exploitation, and on agro-sylvo-pastoral techniques, resulting in 56 young men and 29 young women later gaining a permanent source of income. In the Philippines, the innovative application of the mobile education clinic concept reached 1,000 street youth proposing information sessions about improving life skills.
