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Honduras: food security Olancho and Nva Suyapa 75 images Created 5 May 2019

taken on assignment for World Renew
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  • A young girl with a baby on a hammock in El Burillo village, Valle, Honduras.
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  • A boy carries a water container to his house in El Burrillo, Valle, Honduras
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  • Schoolgirls in a doorway in El Burrillo, Valle, Honduras
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  • A programme to detect malnutrition in children weighs all the children in El Burrillo village, Valle, Honduras. The prolonged drought in the region, caused by climate change, has caused crops to fail repeatedly, resulting in malnutrition. Many people are migrating from the area as traditional agriculture is failing.
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  • A programme to detect malnutrition in children weighs all the children in El Burrillo village, Valle, Honduras. The prolonged drought in the region, caused by climate change, has caused crops to fail repeatedly, resulting in malnutrition. Many people are migrating from the area as traditional agriculture is failing.
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  • A programme to detect malnutrition in children weighs all the children in El Burrillo village, Valle, Honduras, this woman records the weights of the children. The prolonged drought in the region, caused by climate change, has caused crops to fail repeatedly, resulting in malnutrition. Many people are migrating from the area as traditional agriculture is failing.
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  • A programme to detect malnutrition in children weighs all the children in El Burrillo village, Valle, Honduras, this woman records the weights of the children. The prolonged drought in the region, caused by climate change, has caused crops to fail repeatedly, resulting in malnutrition. Many people are migrating from the area as traditional agriculture is failing.
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  • A programme to detect malnutrition in children weighs all the children in El Burrillo village, Valle, Honduras. The prolonged drought in the region, caused by climate change, has caused crops to fail repeatedly, resulting in malnutrition. Many people are migrating from the area as traditional agriculture is failing.
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  • Women wait for their children in a programme to detect malnutrition in children that weighs all the children in El Burrillo village, Valle, Honduras. The prolonged drought in the region, caused by climate change, has caused crops to fail repeatedly, resulting in malnutrition. Many people are migrating from the area as traditional agriculture is failing.
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  • A boy on a hammock looks at dogs playing on the floor of his house in El Burillo, Valle, Honduras
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  • A girl reclines on a tree in El Burillo, Honduras
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  • As the water table level continues to drop, many wells have dried out, like this one in El Burillo, Valle, Honduras. Communities have deepened their hand-dug wells up to three times, others have drilled deeper wells, up to 60m deep, with special rigs, but the drought has already lasted seven years in this dry corridor of Central America and is predicted to continue due to climate change..
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  • José Santos deepens his well to find water in El Burrillo, Valle, Honduras. With ongoing drought and irresponsible management of water resources by commercial agriculture, the water table has dropped and this has brought water scarcity for many villages and subsitence farmers.
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  • José Santos deepens his well to find water in El Burrillo, Valle, Honduras. With ongoing drought and irresponsible management of water resources by commercial agriculture, the water table has dropped and this has brought water scarcity for many villages and subsitence farmers.
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  • As the water table level continues to drop, many wells in southern Honduras have dried out, like this one in El Burillo, Valle. Communities have deepened their hand-dug wells up to three times, others have drilled deeper wells, up to 60m deep, with special rigs, but the drought has already lasted seven years in this dry corridor of Central America and is predicted to continue due to climate change. Here villagers help deepen a well.
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  • Mirtala López: "I was a shy woman before. But, a few years ago, I began taking part in the savings group Amor y Fé. I would go and put my money in, but I’d never speak. Bit by bit, I began to take a more active part in the group, and I was elected to run it, as President of the group for eight years. We had a good group, 30 people, we began to celebrate Mothers Day, Women’s Day, Christmas, International Day of the Child, and the group grew to 70 women. But then my husband died, and I had to withdraw. But I still meet all those women and they say that I motivated them. We used to have days out, excursions, and the money that we’d make from the excursions we’d spend on lunches, it was a lovely group. I moved on to the family garden groups, and I had to learn a lot. But it was a lovely process, planting seeds, for gardens, and for communities. There is a practical benefit, and a spiritual benefit. This has helped me to be the woman that I am today. I would never have thought that I’d go and sit with government representatives and hold them to rights, but I do. I used to be really shy, I’d never speak. Now they have to stop me. Whoever is in the government, I will go there and ask for support for our community. The government has got a responsibility, and they have resources. And we put in our part, our labour, we have a responsibility too. The work with World Renew has trained us to open those doors to government support, and to solving our own problems."
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  • An urban agriculture project in Nueva Suyapa, on the outskirts of the capital of Honduras, Tegucigalpa. Here vegetables are produced in polytunnels by members of the community who are trained by North American aid group World Renew. Some of the production is eaten, most of it is sold to generate income for the community.
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  • An urban agriculture project in Nueva Suyapa, on the outskirts of the capital of Honduras, Tegucigalpa. Here vegetables are produced in polytunnels by members of the community who are trained by North American aid group World Renew. Some of the production is eaten, most of it is sold to generate income for the community.
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  • Alba Tinglas: I’m from Cocovila, near Palacios in the Mosquitia. I have worked 30 years with the church in Tegucigalpa. I try to get back to the Mosquitia from time to time, to make sure that my children don’t lose a sense of their indigenous roots. World Renew has been supporting, and I hope it continues to support, there is a lot of need here. We have done a lot of useful training here. The big one for us is garden farming, agriculture, but we’ve done training in other things too. We are grateful for these opportunities. We’re ladies, but here we are working hard, producing, teaching, setting a good example. And, when people in the community are needy, we are glad to help out. That’s our aim, to go further, to help people when they are in need.
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  • Alba Tinglas: I’m from Cocovila, near Palacios in the Mosquitia. I have worked 30 years with the church in Tegucigalpa. I try to get back to the Mosquitia from time to time, to make sure that my children don’t lose a sense of their indigenous roots. World Renew has been supporting, and I hope it continues to support, there is a lot of need here. We have done a lot of useful training here. The big one for us is garden farming, agriculture, but we’ve done training in other things too. We are grateful for these opportunities. We’re ladies, but here we are working hard, producing, teaching, setting a good example. And, when people in the community are needy, we are glad to help out. That’s our aim, to go further, to help people when they are in need.
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  • Waldomiro Tinglas: I’m from the Mosquitia, I work voluntarily here. My sister brought me here to work with my brothers and sisters. I worked as a diver before, but I was injured in deep water, fishing for lobster and oyster, I got the bends, I was 15 days in a decompression chamber in Roatan, there isn’t a tank near us, and that has helped me to get back on my feet, but I’ll never be the same.
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  • World Renew supports this project in Nueva Suyapa, on the outskirts of the capital of Honduras, Tegucigalpa. Here vegetables are produced in polytunnels by members of the community who are trained by World Renew. Some of the production is eaten, most of it is sold to generate income.
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  • At the Lourdes Monserrath school in Nueva Suyapa, children take part in a school gardening project supported by World Renew through its partners Christian Ministries.
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  • At the Lourdes Monserrath school in Nueva Suyapa, children take part in a school gardening project supported by World Renew through its partners Christian Ministries.
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  • At the Lourdes Monserrath school in Nueva Suyapa, children take part in a school gardening project supported by World Renew through its partners Christian Ministries.
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  • At the Lourdes Monserrath school in Nueva Suyapa, children take part in a school gardening project supported by World Renew through its partners Christian Ministries.
    Honduras_Hawkey_WorldRenew_NuevaSuya...jpg
  • At the Lourdes Monserrath school in Nueva Suyapa, children take part in a school gardening project supported by World Renew through its partners Christian Ministries.
    Honduras_Hawkey_WorldRenew_NuevaSuya...jpg
  • At the Lourdes Monserrath school in Nueva Suyapa, children take part in a school gardening project supported by World Renew through its partners Christian Ministries.
    Honduras_Hawkey_WorldRenew_NuevaSuya...jpg
  • At the Lourdes Monserrath school in Nueva Suyapa, children take part in a school gardening project supported by World Renew through its partners Christian Ministries.
    Honduras_Hawkey_WorldRenew_NuevaSuya...jpg
  • At the Lourdes Monserrath school in Nueva Suyapa, children take part in a school gardening project supported by World Renew through its partners Christian Ministries.
    Honduras_Hawkey_WorldRenew_NuevaSuya...jpg
  • At the Lourdes Monserrath school in Nueva Suyapa, children take part in a school gardening project supported by World Renew through its partners Christian Ministries.
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  • Erika Cáceres Díaz, with her daughter Madeline: I work making stickers and signs. A lot of our work comes from the transport sector, buses and taxis mainly. We also do signs for offices, emergency exits and so on, but we get less business from that, it’s mainly transport, public and private. God has given me a talent for this, I thank God for it. And we’ve done trainings, for how to run a business, and I’ve learned other things on YouTube too. When we started, we didn’t know how to use the computer, we hadn’t been able to study much at school, so we had to learn a lot. I’ve done distance study at the university now too, in graphic design. World Renew, through Christian Ministries, has given us economic support too, credit to buy the computer and materials, as well as the trainings. Training on how to run a business and control costs, and know how far down you can go with pricing, that’s been important, it’s a competitive business, and prices are changing, we’re buying products that come into the country, so we’re paying dollars but earning lempiras, you need to understand what you are doing.
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  • Erika Cáceres Díaz, with her daughter Madeline: I work making stickers and signs. A lot of our work comes from the transport sector, buses and taxis mainly. We also do signs for offices, emergency exits and so on, but we get less business from that, it’s mainly transport, public and private. God has given me a talent for this, I thank God for it. And we’ve done trainings, for how to run a business, and I’ve learned other things on YouTube too. When we started, we didn’t know how to use the computer, we hadn’t been able to study much at school, so we had to learn a lot. I’ve done distance study at the university now too, in graphic design. World Renew, through Christian Ministries, has given us economic support too, credit to buy the computer and materials, as well as the trainings. Training on how to run a business and control costs, and know how far down you can go with pricing, that’s been important, it’s a competitive business, and prices are changing, we’re buying products that come into the country, so we’re paying dollars but earning lempiras, you need to understand what you are doing.
    Honduras_Hawkey_WorldRenew_NuevaSuya...jpg
  • Mirtala López: "I was a shy woman before. But, a few years ago, I began taking part in the savings group Amor y Fé. I would go and put my money in, but I’d never speak. Bit by bit, I began to take a more active part in the group, and I was elected to run it, as President of the group for eight years. We had a good group, 30 people, we began to celebrate Mothers Day, Women’s Day, Christmas, International Day of the Child, and the group grew to 70 women. But then my husband died, and I had to withdraw. But I still meet all those women and they say that I motivated them. We used to have days out, excursions, and the money that we’d make from the excursions we’d spend on lunches, it was a lovely group. I moved on to the family garden groups, and I had to learn a lot. But it was a lovely process, planting seeds, for gardens, and for communities. There is a practical benefit, and a spiritual benefit. This has helped me to be the woman that I am today. I would never have thought that I’d go and sit with government representatives and hold them to rights, but I do. I used to be really shy, I’d never speak. Now they have to stop me. Whoever is in the government, I will go there and ask for support for our community. The government has got a responsibility, and they have resources. And we put in our part, our labour, we have a responsibility too. The work with World Renew has trained us to open those doors to government support, and to solving our own problems."
    Honduras_Hawkey_WorldRenew_NuevaSuya...jpg
  • Mirtala López: "I was a shy woman before. But, a few years ago, I began taking part in the savings group Amor y Fé. I would go and put my money in, but I’d never speak. Bit by bit, I began to take a more active part in the group, and I was elected to run it, as President of the group for eight years. We had a good group, 30 people, we began to celebrate Mothers Day, Women’s Day, Christmas, International Day of the Child, and the group grew to 70 women. But then my husband died, and I had to withdraw. But I still meet all those women and they say that I motivated them. We used to have days out, excursions, and the money that we’d make from the excursions we’d spend on lunches, it was a lovely group. I moved on to the family garden groups, and I had to learn a lot. But it was a lovely process, planting seeds, for gardens, and for communities. There is a practical benefit, and a spiritual benefit. This has helped me to be the woman that I am today. I would never have thought that I’d go and sit with government representatives and hold them to rights, but I do. I used to be really shy, I’d never speak. Now they have to stop me. Whoever is in the government, I will go there and ask for support for our community. The government has got a responsibility, and they have resources. And we put in our part, our labour, we have a responsibility too. The work with World Renew has trained us to open those doors to government support, and to solving our own problems."
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  • Iveth, 15: I help my mother with the little shop. With the government programme ‘for one lempira less’ we offer products slightly cheaper than in a lot of shops. I help and study at the same time, I want to study pharmaceutical chemistry at university.
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  • Iveth, 15: I help my mother with the little shop. With the government programme ‘for one lempira less’ we offer products slightly cheaper than in a lot of shops. I help and study at the same time, I want to study pharmaceutical chemistry at university.
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  • Produce from the polytunnels in a sustainable livelihoods program supported by the Canadian Government through World Renew and its partenrs Christian Ministries in Nueva Suyapa. Nueva Suyapa is poor district of the capital city Tegucigalpa in Honduras.
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  • Produce from the polytunnels in a sustainable livelihoods program supported by the Canadian Government through World Renew and its partenrs Christian Ministries in Nueva Suyapa. Nueva Suyapa is poor district of the capital city Tegucigalpa in Honduras.
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  • Produce from the polytunnels in a sustainable livelihoods program supported by the Canadian Government through World Renew and its partenrs Christian Ministries in Nueva Suyapa. Nueva Suyapa is poor district of the capital city Tegucigalpa in Honduras.
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  • Karol Salazar: "I’m from Choluteca but I live in Tegucigalpa. I work building capacity in the community, particularly on family plots, school plots. We want to run more projects, because they do benefit the community, in their nutrition and independence, but also in building self confidence and good social relationships between people. It’s good to see women become producers of food for their own nutrition, and to sell for an income. We also work on small community projects, helping them to get organised to get improvements in their roads or houses. Communities can do a lot if they get organised and together make a plan for whatever they need. That’s what I do here, helping with those areas of work. Christian Ministries have several programmes in education, that’s where I began working, as a social worker and teacher of sixth grade, and I worked on grants and nurseries, and I worked on a programme to guarantee a nutritious meal at school, because lots of the children here are from very low income families."
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  • Clearing land left fallow for seven years. Six or seven years of fallow keeps this land fertile, and makes the farming sustainable, but the clearance is tough work. The farmers use machetes called guarisamas, with very long heavy blades. This farm, belonging to Lázaro Adalid Zablah, a participant in programmes sponsored by World Renew, is near Los Charcos, Olancho.
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  • Clearing land left fallow for seven years. Six or seven years of fallow keeps this land fertile, and makes the farming sustainable, but the clearance is tough work. The farmers use machetes called guarisamas, with very long heavy blades. This farm, belonging to Lázaro Adalid Zablah, a participant in programmes sponsored by World Renew, is near Los Charcos, Olancho.
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  • Clearing land left fallow for seven years. Six or seven years of fallow keeps this land fertile, and makes the farming sustainable, but the clearance is tough work. The farmers use machetes called guarisamas, with very long heavy blades. This farm, belonging to Lázaro Adalid Zablah, a participant in programmes sponsored by World Renew, is near Los Charcos, Olancho.
    Honduras_Hawkey_WorldRenew_Olancho_2...jpg
  • Clearing land left fallow for seven years. Six or seven years of fallow keeps this land fertile, and makes the farming sustainable, but the clearance is tough work. The farmers use machetes called guarisamas, with very long heavy blades. This farm, belonging to Lázaro Adalid Zablah, a participant in programmes sponsored by World Renew, is near Los Charcos, Olancho.
    Honduras_Hawkey_WorldRenew_Olancho_2...jpg
  • Clearing land left fallow for seven years. Six or seven years of fallow keeps this land fertile, and makes the farming sustainable, but the clearance is tough work. The farmers use machetes called guarisamas, with very long heavy blades. This farm, belonging to Lázaro Adalid Zablah, a participant in programmes sponsored by World Renew, is near Los Charcos, Olancho.
    Honduras_Hawkey_WorldRenew_Olancho_2...jpg
  • Clearing land left fallow for seven years. Six or seven years of fallow keeps this land fertile, and makes the farming sustainable, but the clearance is tough work. The farmers use machetes called guarisamas, with very long heavy blades. This farm, belonging to Lázaro Adalid Zablah, a participant in programmes sponsored by World Renew, is near Los Charcos, Olancho.
    Honduras_Hawkey_WorldRenew_Olancho_2...jpg
  • Clearing land left fallow for seven years. Six or seven years of fallow keeps this land fertile, and makes the farming sustainable, but the clearance is tough work. The farmers use machetes called guarisamas, with very long heavy blades. This farm, belonging to Lázaro Adalid Zablah, a participant in programmes sponsored by World Renew, is near Los Charcos, Olancho.
    Honduras_Hawkey_WorldRenew_Olancho_2...jpg
  • Clearing land left fallow for seven years. Six or seven years of fallow keeps this land fertile, and makes the farming sustainable, but the clearance is tough work. The farmers use machetes called guarisamas, with very long heavy blades. This farm, belonging to Lázaro Adalid Zablah, a participant in programmes sponsored by World Renew, is near Los Charcos, Olancho.
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  • Lázaro Adalid Zablah, Los Charcos, Olancho: "I’ve taken part in the programmes with Diaconia (the national partner of World Renew in the region of Olancho) and I’ve taken up everything I’ve been taught. I’ve worked on making unproductive land productive by using conservation agriculture techniques, I’ve worked on diversification, grafting, everything they’ve taught me, I’m using it. We’ve turned useless land, that no one could farm, into productive land, the technique is hard work at first, to make the holes for the compost, but it really works, everyone is impressed".
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  • Lázaro Adalid Zablah, Los Charcos, Olancho: "I’ve taken part in the programmes with Diaconia (the national partner of World Renew in the region of Olancho) and I’ve taken up everything I’ve been taught. I’ve worked on making unproductive land productive by using conservation agriculture techniques, I’ve worked on diversification, grafting, everything they’ve taught me, I’m using it. We’ve turned useless land, that no one could farm, into productive land, the technique is hard work at first, to make the holes for the compost, but it really works, everyone is impressed".
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  • farmers walk home after a day's work
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  • The traditional method of clearing land by controlled burning is now looked down upon. Current best practice is never leaving the soil unprotected, and mulching instead of burning.
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  • children sit at the back of community meeting in El Tule, Olancho.
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  • In the village of El Tule, Olancho, men kill some chickens.
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  • Jennis Tejera, El Tule, Olancho: "We began working together a year ago, with support from World Renew and INFOP. There are twelve women in our group, we got trained to make different types of bread and cake, and biscuits and snacks, new types of baking that we weren’t used to. We built an oven and we bake together once a month, and we do it to sell the produce, and at the moment we are saving the profits as a group, we’ll decide later what to do with the money, maybe at the end of the year. We’ve never had savings before. Some of us also bake at other times, I bake to sell quite frequently on my own now as well. Women in this area often don’t have their own money, the man has the money, but having our own money, and having savings, in this area, where there are no paid jobs, is a big change for us".
    Honduras_Hawkey_WorldRenew_Olancho_2...jpg
  • Jennis Tejera, El Tule, Olancho: "We began working together a year ago, with support from World Renew and INFOP. There are twelve women in our group, we got trained to make different types of bread and cake, and biscuits and snacks, new types of baking that we weren’t used to. We built an oven and we bake together once a month, and we do it to sell the produce, and at the moment we are saving the profits as a group, we’ll decide later what to do with the money, maybe at the end of the year. We’ve never had savings before. Some of us also bake at other times, I bake to sell quite frequently on my own now as well. Women in this area often don’t have their own money, the man has the money, but having our own money, and having savings, in this area, where there are no paid jobs, is a big change for us".
    Honduras_Hawkey_WorldRenew_Olancho_2...jpg
  • Jennis Tejera, El Tule, Olancho: "We began working together a year ago, with support from World Renew and INFOP. There are twelve women in our group, we got trained to make different types of bread and cake, and biscuits and snacks, new types of baking that we weren’t used to. We built an oven and we bake together once a month, and we do it to sell the produce, and at the moment we are saving the profits as a group, we’ll decide later what to do with the money, maybe at the end of the year. We’ve never had savings before. Some of us also bake at other times, I bake to sell quite frequently on my own now as well. Women in this area often don’t have their own money, the man has the money, but having our own money, and having savings, in this area, where there are no paid jobs, is a big change for us".
    Honduras_Hawkey_WorldRenew_Olancho_2...jpg
  • Jennis Tejera, El Tule, Olancho: "We began working together a year ago, with support from World Renew and INFOP. There are twelve women in our group, we got trained to make different types of bread and cake, and biscuits and snacks, new types of baking that we weren’t used to. We built an oven and we bake together once a month, and we do it to sell the produce, and at the moment we are saving the profits as a group, we’ll decide later what to do with the money, maybe at the end of the year. We’ve never had savings before. Some of us also bake at other times, I bake to sell quite frequently on my own now as well. Women in this area often don’t have their own money, the man has the money, but having our own money, and having savings, in this area, where there are no paid jobs, is a big change for us".
    Honduras_Hawkey_WorldRenew_Olancho_2...jpg
  • Jennis Tejera, El Tule, Olancho: "We began working together a year ago, with support from World Renew and INFOP. There are twelve women in our group, we got trained to make different types of bread and cake, and biscuits and snacks, new types of baking that we weren’t used to. We built an oven and we bake together once a month, and we do it to sell the produce, and at the moment we are saving the profits as a group, we’ll decide later what to do with the money, maybe at the end of the year. We’ve never had savings before. Some of us also bake at other times, I bake to sell quite frequently on my own now as well. Women in this area often don’t have their own money, the man has the money, but having our own money, and having savings, in this area, where there are no paid jobs, is a big change for us".
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  • Jennis Tejera puts rosquillas, a local type of biscuit, into a wood-fired stove in El Tule, Olancho
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  • Children in El Tule climb a guayaba tree looking for fruit.
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  • Jennis Tejera, El Tule, Olancho: We began working together a year ago, with support from World Renew and INFOP. There are twelve women in our group, we got trained to make different types of bread and cake, and biscuits and snacks, new types of baking that we weren’t used to. We built an oven and we bake together once a month, and we do it to sell the produce, and at the moment we are saving the profits as a group, we’ll decide later what to do with the money, maybe at the end of the year. We’ve never had savings before. Some of us also bake at other times, I bake to sell quite frequently on my own now as well. Women in this area often don’t have their own money, the man has the money, but having our own money, and having savings, in this area, where there are no paid jobs, is a big change for us.
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  • A boy in El Tule climb a guayaba tree looking for fruit.
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  • Baked snacks are withdrawn from the oven by the womens group in El Tule
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  • Jennis Tejera, El Tule, Olancho: We began working together a year ago, with support from World Renew and INFOP. There are twelve women in our group, we got trained to make different types of bread and cake, and biscuits and snacks, new types of baking that we weren’t used to. We built an oven and we bake together once a month, and we do it to sell the produce, and at the moment we are saving the profits as a group, we’ll decide later what to do with the money, maybe at the end of the year. We’ve never had savings before. Some of us also bake at other times, I bake to sell quite frequently on my own now as well. Women in this area often don’t have their own money, the man has the money, but having our own money, and having savings, in this area, where there are no paid jobs, is a big change for us.
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  • Taking a nap, El Tule, Olancho, Honduras
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  • Jennis Tejera, El Tule, Olancho: We began working together a year ago, with support from World Renew and INFOP. There are twelve women in our group, we got trained to make different types of bread and cake, and biscuits and snacks, new types of baking that we weren’t used to. We built an oven and we bake together once a month, and we do it to sell the produce, and at the moment we are saving the profits as a group, we’ll decide later what to do with the money, maybe at the end of the year. We’ve never had savings before. Some of us also bake at other times, I bake to sell quite frequently on my own now as well. Women in this area often don’t have their own money, the man has the money, but having our own money, and having savings, in this area, where there are no paid jobs, is a big change for us.
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  • Lázaro Adalid Zablah, Los Charcos, Olancho: I’ve taken part in the programmes with Diaconia (the national partner of World Renew in the region of Olancho) and I’ve taken up everything I’ve been taught. I’ve worked on making unproductive land productive by using conservation agriculture techniques, I’ve worked on diversification, grafting, everything they’ve taught me, I’m using it. We’ve turned useless land, that no one could farm, into productive land, the technique is hard work at first, to make the holes for the compost, but it really works, everyone is impressed.
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  • Lázaro Adalid Zablah, Los Charcos, Olancho: I’ve taken part in the programmes with Diaconia (the national partner of World Renew in the region of Olancho) and I’ve taken up everything I’ve been taught. I’ve worked on making unproductive land productive by using conservation agriculture techniques, I’ve worked on diversification, grafting, everything they’ve taught me, I’m using it. We’ve turned useless land, that no one could farm, into productive land, the technique is hard work at first, to make the holes for the compost, but it really works, everyone is impressed.
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  • Lázaro Adalid Zablah, Los Charcos, Olancho, shows a grafted avocado tree he prepared after training with World Renew. He has 96 sucessfully grafted avocado tress on a plot near his house.
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  • trees at sunset, Olancho
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  • Benigno López, Dos Quebradas.
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  • Arlington López, Dos Quebradas, Olancho: I have peppers, yuca and avocado planted here, and I now I have a good irrigation system. I’m using techniques I’ve learned on this programme, conservation agriculture, I did the trainings, and put the knowledge into practice, and it’s paying off. The irrigation system I turn on every morning, I’m fertilizing soil with compost, and it’s holding the moisture and providing nutrients to the plants. I also learned how to run a chicken farm, producing chicken for meat. The margins are quite low, it’s a volume business, the more you do, the more you earn, but I feel confident with the training I’ve done, and the experience I’m getting, that I can turn this into quite a profitable and sustainable business here. I’ve been selling locally, and the chicken I produce isn’t injected with water, it tastes better because it is better and people know that.
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