Tarbaca Indigo Foundation supported Helvetas' project EDUCAR in Honduras. With its project EDUCAR, Helvetas reached out to young students in the rural areas of Honduras and conducted vocational training. The project’s objective was to align the education system to the markets actual needs and to promote local entrepreneurial initiatives. Young adults worked together with local entrepreneurs and farmers on new business ideas. The EDUCAR project as implemented in 28 secondary schools in six departments of the country.

In Bolivia, a shortage of water, infertile soils and the growing consequences of climate change are having a negative impact on the food supply for Bolivia’s rural population. Tarbaca Indigo Foundation supported Helvetas' food security and climate change project in the Pacajes province in the department of La Paz. The project raised the levels of food security and sovereignty was raised by increasing the production and intake of traditional products like quinoa, potato and cañahua. Local expert farmers Yapuchiris, who are known to be motivated to recover traditional farming practices and open to explore and apply innovations (new in situ selected crop varieties, biofertilizers, integrated pest control, weather observations, etc.), were trained with mechanisms for promoting diversification of agricultural production. Yapuchiris are farmers