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  • Bessi, a young woman who makes a living as a tortilla seller, rests in a hammock in Rivera Hernández, a particularly poor area of San Pedro Sula, Honduras. There is no formal employment in the area and many people live in acute poverty. The neighbourhoods on the edges of the river here are not recognised by the municipality and are provision of basic services is unstable, water has been cut off to the thousands of households here for four weeks and electricity is routinely black out. Gangs control the area and violence is endemic, children are recruited to the gangs or killed, girls are often raped. People are deperate to leave the area and many make the perilous journey to the US as illegal migrants or 'mojados'. Thousands of migrants are repatriated to Honduras each month. ACT Alliance members in Honduras provide support services to repatriated child migrants and their families.
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  • Gay Jesus<br />
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Emanuel de Jesús Barrientos, Comayagüela<br />
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"I knew I was gay when I was six years old. I’m 33 now, the age of Christ.<br />
<br />
In Honduras many gay men suffer discrimination. They are attacked, even killed. It’s dangerous to come out of the closet as it puts everything in danger - your family, your social relationships, your work, your security, even your life. We live in an aggressive environment of violent heterosexual machismo.<br />
<br />
I work promoting LGBT rights here in the office of the Arcoiris association and I study at the university too. In our offices we are obliged to have a security system with cameras and rolls of razorwire as we’ve had threats.<br />
<br />
We have a proposal for a law for gender identity and equality. Through this law we would have a legal basis to prohibit all sorts of discrimination for sexual orientation, race, ability, age and gender identity. Though the initiative is from Arcoiris it would cover LGBT, disability, women, Afro-Hondurans, the elderly, indigenous and others.<br />
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There are gender equality laws in other countries but, of course, with this government there’s not much chance of seeing it passed in Honduras. A lot of people are opposed to the movement for equality, they think the only thing we want is equal marriage and the right to adopt.<br />
<br />
On May 17th we promote campaigns against homo, lesbo, bi and transphobia in Honduras.<br />
<br />
Two years ago I tried dressing as a woman for the first time. I feel it allows me to express a feminine side of my character that I can’t while I’m dressed as a man. I don’t walk down the street like it, but I do it for LGBT events, like a show. It’s a bit of fun."
    Honduras_Hawkey_20180822_6914.jpg
  • Hector Hermilo Perdomo, COCASJOL, Colinas, Santa Bárbara, Honduras. “With the two hurricanes that hit Honduras, the water that fell with them has affected us very much. We’ve had landslides, lots of land has been wiped out, taking with it our crops. Just in my bit of land I’ve lost two manzanas (5 acres) that means 7000 coffee plants that I’ve lost, that I can’t recover. Also the production of those 7000 plants, that’s about 35 quintals of dry pergamino coffee that I’ve lost. All this means I’m in difficulties financially, it’s a big loss. Also I’ve lost the musacea, the bananas we plant alongside the coffee as shade, and we have a substantial trade of bananas to Guatemala, mainly the small banana we call ‘mínimo’, we’ve lost that too. We’ve got big difficulties with access to and from our farms here, after the main roads and minor roads were affected by landslides, and that has made it hard to get any product out to market, or get machinery in to fix things on our farms. I’ve had 14 small landslides, and two big ones on my own property.”
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201208_96...jpg
  • Hector Hermilo Perdomo, COCASJOL, Colinas, Santa Bárbara, Honduras. “With the two hurricanes that hit Honduras, the water that fell with them has affected us very much. We’ve had landslides, lots of land has been wiped out, taking with it our crops. Just in my bit of land I’ve lost two manzanas (5 acres) that means 7000 coffee plants that I’ve lost, that I can’t recover. Also the production of those 7000 plants, that’s about 35 quintals of dry pergamino coffee that I’ve lost. All this means I’m in difficulties financially, it’s a big loss. Also I’ve lost the musacea, the bananas we plant alongside the coffee as shade, and we have a substantial trade of bananas to Guatemala, mainly the small banana we call ‘mínimo’, we’ve lost that too. We’ve got big difficulties with access to and from our farms here, after the main roads and minor roads were affected by landslides, and that has made it hard to get any product out to market, or get machinery in to fix things on our farms. I’ve had 14 small landslides, and two big ones on my own property.”
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201208_96...jpg
  • Hector Hermilo Perdomo, COCASJOL, Colinas, Santa Bárbara, Honduras. “With the two hurricanes that hit Honduras, the water that fell with them has affected us very much. We’ve had landslides, lots of land has been wiped out, taking with it our crops. Just in my bit of land I’ve lost two manzanas (5 acres) that means 7000 coffee plants that I’ve lost, that I can’t recover. Also the production of those 7000 plants, that’s about 35 quintals of dry pergamino coffee that I’ve lost. All this means I’m in difficulties financially, it’s a big loss. Also I’ve lost the musacea, the bananas we plant alongside the coffee as shade, and we have a substantial trade of bananas to Guatemala, mainly the small banana we call ‘mínimo’, we’ve lost that too. We’ve got big difficulties with access to and from our farms here, after the main roads and minor roads were affected by landslides, and that has made it hard to get any product out to market, or get machinery in to fix things on our farms. I’ve had 14 small landslides, and two big ones on my own property.”
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201208_96...jpg
  • Hector Hermilo Perdomo, COCASJOL, Colinas, Santa Bárbara, Honduras. “With the two hurricanes that hit Honduras, the water that fell with them has affected us very much. We’ve had landslides, lots of land has been wiped out, taking with it our crops. Just in my bit of land I’ve lost two manzanas (5 acres) that means 7000 coffee plants that I’ve lost, that I can’t recover. Also the production of those 7000 plants, that’s about 35 quintals of dry pergamino coffee that I’ve lost. All this means I’m in difficulties financially, it’s a big loss. Also I’ve lost the musacea, the bananas we plant alongside the coffee as shade, and we have a substantial trade of bananas to Guatemala, mainly the small banana we call ‘mínimo’, we’ve lost that too. We’ve got big difficulties with access to and from our farms here, after the main roads and minor roads were affected by landslides, and that has made it hard to get any product out to market, or get machinery in to fix things on our farms. I’ve had 14 small landslides, and two big ones on my own property.”
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201208_96...jpg
  • Hector Hermilo Perdomo, COCASJOL, Colinas, Santa Bárbara, Honduras. “With the two hurricanes that hit Honduras, the water that fell with them has affected us very much. We’ve had landslides, lots of land has been wiped out, taking with it our crops. Just in my bit of land I’ve lost two manzanas (5 acres) that means 7000 coffee plants that I’ve lost, that I can’t recover. Also the production of those 7000 plants, that’s about 35 quintals of dry pergamino coffee that I’ve lost. All this means I’m in difficulties financially, it’s a big loss. Also I’ve lost the musacea, the bananas we plant alongside the coffee as shade, and we have a substantial trade of bananas to Guatemala, mainly the small banana we call ‘mínimo’, we’ve lost that too. We’ve got big difficulties with access to and from our farms here, after the main roads and minor roads were affected by landslides, and that has made it hard to get any product out to market, or get machinery in to fix things on our farms. I’ve had 14 small landslides, and two big ones on my own property.”
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201208_95...jpg
  • A family begins to clear the mud from their house in La Planeta, San Pedro Sula, Honduras.<br />
<br />
Hurricanes Eta and Iota hit hard on the north coast of Honduras, leaving some areas flooded for three weeks, destroying people's furniture, belongings, vehicles and houses as well as standing crops.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201116_60...jpg
  • Antonio sits with his brother where their house used to be in El Calan, Honduras. Following the double hurricanes of Eta and Iota, many houses were washed away or damaged in the north, centre and west of Honduras.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201120_26...jpg
  • In the aftermath of hurricanes Eta and Iota, a cat walks through the mud in La Planeta, San Pedro Sula, Honduras.<br />
<br />
Hurricanes Eta and Iota hit hard on the north coast of Honduras, leaving some areas flooded for three weeks, destroying people's furniture, belongings, vehicles and houses as well as standing crops.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201116_73...jpg
  • A street is filled with mud and and destroyed furniture in La Planeta, San Pedro Sula, Honduras.<br />
<br />
Hurricanes Eta and Iota hit hard on the north coast of Honduras, leaving some areas flooded for three weeks, destroying people's furniture, belongings, vehicles and houses as well as standing crops.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201116_65...jpg
  • People sort through heaps of destroyed furniture in La Planeta, San Pedro Sula, Honduras.<br />
<br />
Hurricanes Eta and Iota hit hard on the north coast of Honduras, leaving some areas flooded for three weeks, destroying people's furniture, belongings, vehicles and houses as well as standing crops.g crops.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201116_47...jpg
  • A man recovers a cooking stove from the mud in La Planeta, San Pedro Sula, Honduras, after hurricane Eta.<br />
<br />
Hurricanes Eta and Iota hit hard on the north coast of Honduras, leaving some areas flooded for three weeks, destroying people's furniture, belongings, vehicles and houses as well as standing crops.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201116_36...jpg
  • A woman carries a bag as she walks through mud after hurricane Eta in La Planeta, San Pedro Sula, Honduras.<br />
<br />
Hurricanes Eta and Iota hit hard on the north coast of Honduras, leaving some areas flooded for three weeks, destroying people's furniture, belongings, vehicles and houses as well as standing crops.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201116_33...jpg
  • A man stands among the ruins of housing in Chamelecón, San Pedro Sula, Honduras<br />
<br />
Hurricanes Eta and Iota hit hard on the north coast of Honduras, leaving some areas flooded for three weeks, destroying people's furniture, belongings, vehicles and houses as well as standing crops.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201116_24...jpg
  • In the muddy aftermath of hurricanes Eta and Iota, a garage door has the word "DIOS" (God) sprayed on it in La Planeta, San Pedro Sula, Honduras.<br />
<br />
Hurricanes Eta and Iota hit hard on the north coast of Honduras, leaving some areas flooded for three weeks, destroying people's furniture, belongings, vehicles and houses as well as standing crops.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201116_67...jpg
  • In the aftermath of hurricanes Eta and Iota, a man walks through the mud in La Planeta, San Pedro Sula, Honduras.<br />
<br />
Hurricanes Eta and Iota hit hard on the north coast of Honduras, leaving some areas flooded for three weeks, destroying people's furniture, belongings, vehicles and houses as well as standing crops.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201116_68...jpg
  • Mud and ruined furniture line a street in La Planeta, San Pedro Sula, Honduras, after hurricane Eta.<br />
<br />
Hurricanes Eta and Iota hit hard on the north coast of Honduras, leaving some areas flooded for three weeks, destroying people's furniture, belongings, vehicles and houses as well as standing crops.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201116_36...jpg
  • The ruins of housing in Chamelecón, San Pedro Sula, Honduras<br />
<br />
Hurricanes Eta and Iota hit hard on the north coast of Honduras, leaving some areas flooded for three weeks, destroying people's furniture, belongings, vehicles and houses as well as standing crops.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201116_19...jpg
  • Olga Alvarado, coffee producer with COAQUIL Coop in Quiragüira, Intibucá, Honduras. Olga migrated to the US for eight years, working in McDonalds and Wendy’s burger joints to save up enough to buy a small plot of land in Honduras and return to grow coffee.
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  • Olga Alvarado, coffee producer with COAQUIL Coop in Quiragüira, Intibucá, Honduras, pictured here with her daughter Genesis. Olga migrated to the US for eight years, working in McDonalds and Wendy’s burger joints to save up enough to buy a small plot of land in Honduras and return to grow coffee.
    Honduras_Hawkey_20190623_488.jpg
  • The COCASJOL coffee mill in Colinas, Santa Barbara, Honduras. COCASJOL, Cooperativa Agropecuaria Cafetalera San José Ltda, is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer based in San José de Colinas, Santa Barbara, Honduras.
    Honduras_Hawkey_COCASJOL_20120201_04...jpg
  • Javier Hernández, in charge of production at COCAOL, shows a map of the location of members in Olancho, Honduras. COCAOL, Cooperativa Cafetalera Olancho Ltda, is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer in Santa Maria del Real, Olancho, Honduras.
    Honduras_Hawkey_COCAOL_20120223_045.jpg
  • The CAFEL coffee mill in Honduras sits on top of a hill near the Guatemala border. Cooperativa Fraternidad Ecológica Ltda, CAFEL is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer in San Fernando, Ocotepeque, Honduras.
    Honduras_Hawkey_CAFEL_20120204_001.jpg
  • Olga Alvarado, coffee producer with COAQUIL Coop in Quiragüira, Intibucá, Honduras. Olga migrated to the US for eight years, working in McDonalds and Wendy’s burger joints to save up enough to buy a small plot of land in Honduras and return to grow coffee.
    Honduras_Hawkey_20190623_571.jpg
  • A father carries his baby at the Aguas Calientes border post between Honduras and Guatemala. Behind him are several lines of police, riot police and army. Not far down the road is a military road block. No undocumented migrant was allowed out of Honduras or into Guatemala, and anyone with an arrest warrant on either side of the border was taken into custody. The process at the border was tense and took several hours, some small scuffles took place. Many migrants slept on the street.
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  • Mario David Castellanos Murillo,12, "the Caravan Boy". <br />
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Mario's mother has a long-term mental illness, his father works long hours as a security guard and doesn't earn the minimum salary. Mario had been spending his time in the street instead of going to school, juggling for tips or selling chewing gum at traffic lights in San Pedro Sula. When the caravan left in October last year, Mario decided to join it. Mario's case was highlighted in some media who dubbed him The Caravan Boy.<br />
<br />
"It's dangerous in the street, there are lots of kids in the street, some people take drugs, they smoke glue, sometimes kids disappear. So. I went on the caravan, on my own. I went walking sometimes, sometimes I jumped on lorries, trailers, sometimes I got lifts in little cars. At the border I went through running, with everyone else that was running, everyone was running. They caught me in Mexico, they were using the crying gas and a woman grabbed me and pulled me away, she took me to a clinic. Then they took my details, and took me to a children's home and flew me back to Honduras on an aeroplane. That was sort of okay. It was easy to escape from the place they put me. I got over the wall, I was in the mountains running. I hid in a tree for a while. Then I got back here, I'm living with my uncle [guardian]". <br />
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Mario's guardian says that Mario's case highlights the precarious social reality of many people living in families with very low incomes, or with mental health issues. He spoke at length about problems of poverty around the city of San Pedro Sula, the industrial capital of Honduras. If people are lucky, they have a job, but they work long hours and can't make ends meet. People have a right to escape terrible conditions if they can see a better alternative somewhere else, he says. Through CASM, he says, Mario has been able to start going to school.
    Honduras_Hawkey_migrants_20190117_45...jpg
  • Cocinera en Catacamas. Dina Escoba, 28 y Alan Mejía Verbinsky y su bebé Alejandra. <br />
<br />
Fuimos deportados de la frontera Mexico y los Estados Unidos. Fue horrible, no queremos volver a pasar por eso, tenemos suerte de estar aquí contando la historia, gracias a Dios. Hemos tomado la decisión de no volver a intentar nunca. Miramos gente que cayó del tren, que fue llevada. A muchos los llevan y desaparecen, muchos son robados, violadas, golpeados, a muchos les piden un rescate, y allí esta todo perdido. Así es la vida allí. Desde que sale uno de la frontera de Honduras a Guatemala, ya a uno lo extorsionan, hasta la policía le quitan el dinero. Es difícil. <br />
<br />
Yo intenté una vez, mi esposo intentó varias veces. Viajamos por semanas, y cuando llegamos al río, ya para cruzar el río, nos agarró la migración, nos pusieron esposas y nos subieron a un camión y nos llevaron. Nos llevaron a Monterey, y nos pusieron en una cárcel, pero no una cárcel de migración, una cárcel normal, y estuvimos 23 días porque no se podía llenar un bus para mandarnos hasta DF para ver la gente de migración. Después nos mandaron para DF, y después para Tapachula, y de Tapachula para la frontera de Honduras con Guatemala. Fuimos tratados como criminales.<br />
<br />
Al llegar aquí no teníamos nada. No teníamos trabajo, mi esposo conseguía trabajo un día sí un día no, así pasábamos, pero la mayoría del tiempo haciendo nada. Y, gracias a Dios, nos hablaron de la Federación, y nos visitaron, incluso no creíamos, de allí nos hablaron que fueramos a Juticalpa a la reunión, y fuimos y miramos que la cosa era en serio. Desde que nos involucramos nos hemos perdido una reunión. Y gracias a Dios estamos trabajando. El negocio de nosotros, que hemos levantado con el apoyo de la Federación, es golosinas. Vendemos tacos, baleadas, plátanos con carne, tajaditas con pollo, y, gracias a Dios, desde que empezamos, todo producto que preparamos se vende, se nos va todo. Empezó con solamente
    Honduras_Hawkey_returned_migrants_20...jpg
  • Riot Police outside the National Automous University of Honduras, the UNAH, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The throw stones and use catapults against the university students. Daily running battles between students and police are routine. The students sometimes block the traffic outside the university in protest against the government of Juan Orlando Hernández.
    Honduras_Hawkey_migrants_20190128_41...jpg
  • Marco Rosalio Duarte is one of the leaders of the Federation of Pech Tribes in Honduras, I interview him in Pueblo Nuevo Subirana, an hour from Dulce Nombre de Culmí, Olancho, Honduras.<br />
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The village has 850 inhabitants, almost all of them are indigenous Pech. There are only 6,000 Pech people. <br />
<br />
"About a quarter of the people in the village speak Pech as their mother tongue, everyone speaks a bit. Pech is taught now in the schools, but most people communicate with Spanish, particularly the young people."<br />
<br />
"The village is surrounded by forest, mainly broadleaf but some pine. The area is now a protected area, the National Congress recently approved it."<br />
<br />
"There are flaws in the reservation agreement. There are 16 white ladino families inside this new anthropological reservation, they have a bit of money too, and it's harder to move rich people than poor people in this country. It will be very hard to move them."<br />
<br />
"For protecting our area, we are threatened. Some families have entered our territory recently and have cut down forest and burned the trees to make pastures for cattle. Their intention is to make money. Our intention is to protect the environment, the forest, the water. We've made declarations to the police, and those people will go to court. This isn't the normal way of doing things here, a lot of violence is used, that's the mentality here. Berta Cáceres is just one of hundreds of people who've been killed for protecting the environment and indigenous rights. At the moment we have death threats against us for trying to protect the environment and our territory. We insist on the use of law to resolve these problems."
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  • Marco Rosalio Duarte laughs "Get that horse out of my picture!" <br />
<br />
Marco Rosalio is one of the leaders of the Federation of Pech Tribes in Honduras, I interview him in Pueblo Nuevo Subirana, an hour from Dulce Nombre de Culmí, Olancho, Honduras.<br />
<br />
The village has 850 inhabitants, almost all of them are indigenous Pech. There are only 6,000 Pech people. <br />
<br />
"About a quarter of the people in the village speak Pech as their mother tongue, everyone speaks a bit. Pech is taught now in the schools, but most people communicate with Spanish, particularly the young people."<br />
<br />
"The village is surrounded by forest, mainly broadleaf but some pine. The area is now a protected area, the National Congress recently approved it."<br />
<br />
"There are flaws in the reservation agreement. There are 16 white ladino families inside this new anthropological reservation, they have a bit of money too, and it's harder to move rich people than poor people in this country. It will be very hard to move them."<br />
<br />
"For protecting our area, we are threatened. Some families have entered our territory recently and have cut down forest and burned the trees to make pastures for cattle. Their intention is to make money. Our intention is to protect the environment, the forest, the water. We've made declarations to the police, and those people will go to court. This isn't the normal way of doing things here, a lot of violence is used, that's the mentality here. Berta Cáceres is just one of hundreds of people who've been killed for protecting the environment and indigenous rights. At the moment we have death threats against us for trying to protect the environment and our territory. We insist on the use of law to resolve these problems."
    honduras_hawkey_20170814_402.jpg
  • Anibal Molina, coffee producer for COAQUIL cooperative in Quiragüira, Intibucá, Honduras. Anibal migrated to the US for 12 years and worked in the catering industry. Despite difficulties he returned to Honduras to farm coffee, and is a Fairtrade-certified producer.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Fairtrade_20190214_4...jpg
  • José Mario Rodríguez, from neighbouring Guatemala, picks coffee for a COPROCAEL member in Honduras. José travels with his family to work. COPROCAEL, Cooperativa De Productores De Café La Encarnación Ltda, is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer in Encarnación, Ocotepeque, Honduras, close to the borders of Guatemala and El Salvador.
    Honduras_Hawkey_COPROCAEL_20120204_0...jpg
  • Fany Pastora Pineda, 24, picking coffee at a COMISAJUL farm. In this area of Honduras the hillsides are particularly steep and are located at around 1600 metres above sea level. COMISAJUL, Cooperativa Mixta San Juancito Ltda, is a Fairtrade-certified coffee cooperative based in San Juancito, Francisco Morazan, Honduras.
    Honduras_Hawkey_COMISAJUL_20120210_0...jpg
  • Finca San Juancito coffee farm in Guacamaya, Francisco Morazan, Honduras, seen from the opposite mountain. This coffee farm is associated with COMISAJUL coop. COMISAJUL, Cooperativa Mixta San Juancito Ltda, is a Fairtrade-certified coffee cooperative based in San Juancito, Francisco Morazan, Honduras.
    Honduras_Hawkey_COMISAJUL_20120210_0...jpg
  • Eduard Mena, Valle de Siria, Honduras. Eduard migrated to the US and lost his arm in an accident on the train known as La Bestia in Mexico. On a subsequent journey he reached the US but was deported back to Honduras. He has been helped to set up a small business by the Lutheran World Federation with support from ELCA.
    Honduras_migration_Hawkey_20210707_7...jpg
  • Eduard Mena, Valle de Siria, Honduras. Eduard migrated to the US and lost his arm in an accident on the train known as La Bestia in Mexico. On a subsequent journey he reached the US but was deported back to Honduras. He has been helped to set up a small business by the Lutheran World Federation with support from ELCA.
    Honduras_migration_Hawkey_20210707_7...jpg
  • Riot Police outside the National Automous University of Honduras, the UNAH, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The throw stones and use catapults against the university students. Daily running battles between students and police are routine. The students sometimes block the traffic outside the university in protest against the government of Juan Orlando Hernández.
    Honduras_Hawkey_migrants_20190128_41...jpg
  • The San Vicente volcano in El Salvador, visible from the COSGUAL coop in Honduras. COSAGUAL, Cooperativa de Servicios Agropecuarios Gualcinse Ltda, is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer in Gualcinse, Lempira, Honduras.
    Honduras_Hawkey_COSAGUAL_20120104_22...jpg
  • Café Colinas, roasted and ground for sale on the local market. The coop is also selling specially packaged coffee for hotels in Honduras, packed with sugar and creamer. COCASJOL, Cooperativa Agropecuaria Cafetalera San José Ltda, is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer based in San José de Colinas, Santa Barbara, Honduras.
    Honduras_Hawkey_COCASJOL_20120201_01...jpg
  • Eduard Mena, Valle de Siria, Honduras. Eduard migrated to the US and lost his arm in an accident on the train known as La Bestia in Mexico. On a subsequent journey he reached the US but was deported back to Honduras. He has been helped to set up a small business by the Lutheran World Federation with support from ELCA.
    Honduras_migration_Hawkey_20210707_7...jpg
  • Olga Alvarado, coffee producer with COAQUIL Coop in Quiragüira, Intibucá, Honduras. Olga migrated to the US for eight years, working in McDonalds and Wendy’s burger joints to save up enough to buy a small plot of land in Honduras and return to grow coffee.
    Honduras_Hawkey_20190623_556.jpg
  • Cocinera en Catacamas. Dina Escoba, 28 y Alan Mejía Verbinsky y su bebé Alejandra. <br />
<br />
Fuimos deportados de la frontera Mexico y los Estados Unidos. Fue horrible, no queremos volver a pasar por eso, tenemos suerte de estar aquí contando la historia, gracias a Dios. Hemos tomado la decisión de no volver a intentar nunca. Miramos gente que cayó del tren, que fue llevada. A muchos los llevan y desaparecen, muchos son robados, violadas, golpeados, a muchos les piden un rescate, y allí esta todo perdido. Así es la vida allí. Desde que sale uno de la frontera de Honduras a Guatemala, ya a uno lo extorsionan, hasta la policía le quitan el dinero. Es difícil. <br />
<br />
Yo intenté una vez, mi esposo intentó varias veces. Viajamos por semanas, y cuando llegamos al río, ya para cruzar el río, nos agarró la migración, nos pusieron esposas y nos subieron a un camión y nos llevaron. Nos llevaron a Monterey, y nos pusieron en una cárcel, pero no una cárcel de migración, una cárcel normal, y estuvimos 23 días porque no se podía llenar un bus para mandarnos hasta DF para ver la gente de migración. Después nos mandaron para DF, y después para Tapachula, y de Tapachula para la frontera de Honduras con Guatemala. Fuimos tratados como criminales.<br />
<br />
Al llegar aquí no teníamos nada. No teníamos trabajo, mi esposo conseguía trabajo un día sí un día no, así pasábamos, pero la mayoría del tiempo haciendo nada. Y, gracias a Dios, nos hablaron de la Federación, y nos visitaron, incluso no creíamos, de allí nos hablaron que fueramos a Juticalpa a la reunión, y fuimos y miramos que la cosa era en serio. Desde que nos involucramos nos hemos perdido una reunión. Y gracias a Dios estamos trabajando. El negocio de nosotros, que hemos levantado con el apoyo de la Federación, es golosinas. Vendemos tacos, baleadas, plátanos con carne, tajaditas con pollo, y, gracias a Dios, desde que empezamos, todo producto que preparamos se vende, se nos va todo. Empezó con solamente
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  • Porfirio Sorto Cedillo and Kelvin Alejandro Romero in Olanchito prison, Yoro, Honduras.
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  • Porfirio Sorto Cedillo and Kelvin Alejandro Romero in Olanchito prison, Yoro, Honduras.
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  • Edgardo Barahona in Dos Bocas, Santa Rosa de Aguán, Honduras. Standing crops of maize and beans have been lost across the region because of the floods caused by hurricanes Eta and Iota. Some crops rotted, some dried out, many crops sprouted on the their stems before they could be harvested, most of the staple crops have been lost. Nutrients have been washed out of the soil too and a huge wave of fungal diseases like canker and leaf rust are just beginning. Cash crops like coffee are badly affected as well as food for local consumption.
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  • Mabel Córdoba, 17, runs a small shop in Las Lomas, Santa Rosa de Aguán, Honduras. 50 people were killed and washed out to sea in hurricane Mitch here, people were better prepared this time and there were no fatalities in the village. No written parental consent.
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  • Mining processing plant being built next to the Guapinol river, Colon, Honduras.
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  • African palm plantation in Santa Rosa de Aguán, Honduras.
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  • African palm plantation in Santa Rosa de Aguán, Honduras.
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  • Damage to roads in Copán, Honduras, following hurricanes Eta and Iota.
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  • Santos Raymunda Oaxaca is an indigenous Maya-Chortí woman who lives in Carrizalón, Copán, Honduras. She is part of a women's programme with CASM and uses permaculture techniques to farm chickens, fish and vegetables in an integrated system. Chicken manure feeds the fish below, and the waste from the fish is fertilizer for the vegetables.
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  • A latrine. Carrizalón, Copán, Honduras.
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  • Santos Raymunda Oaxaca is an indigenous Maya-Chortí woman who lives in Carrizalón, Copán, Honduras. She is part of a women's programme with CASM and uses permaculture techniques to farm chickens, fish and vegetables.
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  • Santos Noelia Interiano is an indigenous  Maya-Chortí woman who lives in Carrizalón, Copán, Honduras. CASM works with this community that has lost approximately 90% of their bean crop and about half their maize crop, after heavy rains from hurricanes Eta and Iota, leaving them without the basic food they need to survive.
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  • On November 24th 2020, following two hurricanes Eta and Iota and very heavy rainfall, a huge landslide occurred in La Reina, Protección, Santa Bárbara, Honduras. Estimates are that 280 houses disappeared under the mud. An entire coffee farm of 30 hectares disappeared. Inhabitants were scared by loud rumbling underground and in the mountain and evacuated in the dark just before the landslide, there were no fatalities. The region of Santa Bárbara continued to be susceptible for weeks afterwards, with hundreds of fresh landslides weeks after the hurricanes.
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  • On November 24th 2020, following two hurricanes Eta and Iota and very heavy rainfall, a huge landslide occurred in La Reina, Protección, Santa Bárbara, Honduras. Estimates are that 280 houses disappeared under the mud. An entire coffee farm of 30 hectares disappeared. Inhabitants were scared by loud rumbling underground and in the mountain and evacuated in the dark just before the landslide, there were no fatalities. The region of Santa Bárbara continued to be susceptible for weeks afterwards, with hundreds of fresh landslides weeks after the hurricanes.
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  • On November 24th 2020, following two hurricanes Eta and Iota and very heavy rainfall, a huge landslide occurred in La Reina, Protección, Santa Bárbara, Honduras. Estimates are that 280 houses disappeared under the mud. An entire coffee farm of 30 hectares disappeared. Inhabitants were scared by loud rumbling underground and in the mountain and evacuated in the dark just before the landslide, there were no fatalities. The region of Santa Bárbara continued to be susceptible for weeks afterwards, with hundreds of fresh landslides weeks after the hurricanes.Here people evacuate from surrounding houses as fears for new landslides continued.
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  • Cecia Vásquez, Los Puentes, Macualizo, Santa Bárbara, Honduras. Cecia's  family lost their house in floods from hurricanes Eta and Iota. Here she walks through the ruins of one of the community's houses.
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  • Following hurricanes Eta and Iota, with widespread damage to housing and crops, a caravan of migrants set off from San Pedro Sula heading north to the US. Honduran authorities, at the behest of the US government, used police and military to block their movement and most were stopped and returned before even arriving at the Guatemala border. Some men went around the border post through the bush to get into Guatemala, but even some of those were quickly returned to Honduras. Migrants reported desperate and unattended situations they were fleeing from.
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  • Fairtrade-certified coop COAGRICSAL were the first on the scene of the La Reina disaster in Santa Bárbara, Honduras. Bringing in food and clothes, items for personal hygiene and visiting regularly thereafter to provide boxes of Xol hot chocolate. Grecia Romero (left) speaks with Kenia (surname withheld) and her baby in the Valle Verde shelter.
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  • Arnaldo Hernández, COCASJOL, El Ocotillal, Colinas, Santa Barbara, Honduras. “Quite a few farms have been affected by the hurricanes. There’s not even a way in to the farms, the roads are ruined. And fungal diseases, ojo de gallo, leaf rust, we’ve got them. There’s been no support from the government, but the coop has given some people some fertilizer because the soil is washed out, to help restore the coffee trees.”
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  • A landslide on the coffee farm of a COCASJOL member near Colinas, Santa Bárbara, Honduras.
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  • Arnaldo Hernández, COCASJOL, El Ocotillal, Colinas, Santa Barbara, Honduras. “Quite a few farms have been affected by the hurricanes. There’s not even a way in to the farms, the roads are ruined. And fungal diseases, ojo de gallo, leaf rust, we’ve got them. There’s been no support from the government, but the coop has given some people some fertilizer because the soil is washed out, to help restore the coffee trees.”
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  • Dilma Chávez is a small-scale coffee farmer in San Luis Planes, Santa Bárbara, Honduras. She is a member of the Montaña Verde cooperative. “On my farm and my husbands farm we have a lot of fissures on the farm, and some landslides. The roads are badly damaged, some of them you can’t pass. We are having to fix the small roads into the farms ourselves, there’s no help from the government. The coffee is suffering a lot from fungal infections, ojo de gallo, leaf rust, and it’s very hard to control with so much moisture, it will probably spread and gets worse. This year we’ll have a big drop in production, everyone in the coop will suffer, it’s big. And that affects us all economically. And some houses have been affected, in the two villages called El Zapote. We grow most of our own food here, and all those crops have also be affected, the corn, the beans, with so much rain we’ve lost a lot of that too.”
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  • Mario Roberto Fernández, coffee farmer with Montaña Verde coffee cooperative, San Luis Planes, Santa Barbara, Honduras. “The damages we’ve had here from the two hurricanes, on top of the pandemic, we’ve seen damages to housing, roads and farms. There’s a combination of problems together. We are very worried, because we can’t see how we’ll get through the year and deliver coffee to our clients, even to get the coffee out of the area. We’ve had losses, we’ve done some analysis in the coop, we’ve completely lost 40 manzanas, the loss of houses. The damage to coffee includes a lot of coffee that dropped while it was green, leaf loss that stops the growth of the coffee beans, and that lowers production and quality, and then we are already suffering from fungal diseases on the farms: anthracnose, coffee tree leaf rust, American coffee leaf spot. Climate change is affecting us in different ways, the rains come when we don’t expect them, then don’t come when we expect them. On my farm there was a lot of leaf loss and green coffee that dropped. In many cases it won’t be worthwhile picking the coffee if the growth is affected and there is damage to the coffee beans. Across the whole coop there will be a big loss, and the economy here will be badly affected.
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  • Flooding and landslides across Honduras after hurricanes Eta and Iota washed away roads, farms and houses. Here in El Zapote village, Gualala, Santa Barbara, 60 families were affected by complete loss or severe damage of their houses.
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  • There are thousands of landslides in the north, centre and west of Honduras. Here in San Luis Planes the coffee harvest is affected by damaged roads that prevent coffee pickers from getting to farms and prevent transport of coffee to mills. The coffee harvest is also damaged from coffee cherries falling with heavy rain, root rot and many fungal diseases like leaf rust that prosper in humidity.
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  • Flooding and landslides across Honduras after hurricanes Eta and Iota washed away roads, farms and houses.
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  • Flooding and landslides across Honduras after hurricanes Eta and Iota washed away roads, farms and houses.
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  • Flooding and landslides across Honduras after hurricanes Eta and Iota washed away roads, farms and houses.
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  • On November 24th 2020, following two hurricanes Eta and Iota and very heavy rainfall, a huge landslide occurred in La Reina, Protección, Santa Bárbara, Honduras. Estimates are that 280 houses disappeared under the mud. An entire coffee farm of 30 hectares disappeared. Inhabitants were scared by loud rumbling underground and in the mountain and evacuated in the dark just before the landslide, there were no fatalities. The region of Santa Bárbara continued to be susceptible for weeks afterwards, with hundreds of fresh landslides weeks after the hurricanes.
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  • A boy cycles through the flood water in La Lima, Honduras, after hurricane Eta and Iota.
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  • A government vehicle sprays passers by with muddy water in La Lima, Honduras.
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  • Daniela Orellana, carries a cloth with all her belongings and waits for the flood water to recede in Pimienta, Honduras.
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  • Vehicles drive along a road damaged by hurricanes Eta and Iota in El Calan, Honduras.
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  • Ruth Abigail Robles Gómez, 8, stands in the Quebrada El Calan near San Pedro Sula, Honduras.
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  • Pastor Julio Caballeros speaks with people in El Calan, Honduras, who have lost their houses in the hurricanes Eta and Iota.
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  • Rony Turcios and Xiomara de Turcios hold each other as they cross Quebrada El Calan near San Pedro Sula, Honduras. The bridge was washed away in the floods of hurricanes Eta and Iota.
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  • Views of the damage done by hurricanes Eta and Iota in Chamelecón, San Pedro Sula, Honduras. Many houses were washed away, leaving rubble or nothing, and many were badly damaged. As the flooding came unexpectedly fast many people lost all their belongings including their furniture.
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  • Views of the damage done by hurricanes Eta and Iota in Chamelecón, San Pedro Sula, Honduras. Many houses were washed away, leaving rubble or nothing, and many were badly damaged. As the flooding came unexpectedly fast many people lost all their belongings including their furniture.
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  • Views of the damage done by hurricanes Eta and Iota in Chamelecón, San Pedro Sula, Honduras. Many houses were washed away, leaving rubble or nothing, and many were badly damaged. As the flooding came unexpectedly fast many people lost all their belongings including their furniture.
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  • Views of the damage done by hurricanes Eta and Iota in Chamelecón, San Pedro Sula, Honduras. Many houses were washed away, leaving rubble or nothing, and many were badly damaged. As the flooding came unexpectedly fast many people lost all their belongings including their furniture.
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  • The main highway between San Pedro Sula and the port of Puerto Cortés was flooded when hurricanes Eta and Iota hit Honduras.
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  • The top of a submerged car is visible in a flooded area after hurricanes Eta and Iota, near La Lima, Cortés, Honduras.
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  • A flooded area of Pimienta near San Pedro Sula, Honduras, directly after hurricane Iota. The water came at 2am, a lot of people were prepared, but flash flooding caught many by surprise and they lost all their belongings.
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  • Río Blanco in San Pedro Sula rose and swelled with fast-running water as hurricane Iota pushed into Honduras. Precarious housing on the riverside began to be washed away and people rushed to save their belongings.
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  • A man salvages rabbits from his home as the Río Blanco in San Pedro Sula rose and swelled with fast-running water as hurricane Iota pushed into Honduras. Precarious housing on the riverside began to be washed away and people rushed to save their belongings.
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  • A man salvages furniture from his home as the Río Blanco in San Pedro Sula rose and swelled with fast-running water as hurricane Iota pushed into Honduras. Precarious housing on the riverside began to be washed away and people rushed to save their belongings.
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  • Two young women travel in a boat provided by volunteers with Captain Santos Orellana in La Lima, Honduras. Volunteer marines with Captain Santos Orellana run a group called Del Pueblo Para El Pueblo (from the people for the people). During all the flooding the group has been running provisions into the most flooded areas including in La Lima. Many people didn't evacuate, afraid that thieves would rob the properties if left alone.
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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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  • 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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  • 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 coffee nursery in Tascalapa, near Trinidad, Santa Bárbara, Honduras. The nursery, was set up by Fairtrade-certified coffee coop PAOLT to help replace coffee stock lost to leaf rust, was supported by Fairtrade Finland.
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  • Cleaning a coffee nursery in Pitontes, near Trinidad, Santa Bárbara, Honduras. The nursery, set up by Fairtrade-certified coffee coop PAOLT to help replace coffee stock lost to leaf rust, was supported by Fairtrade Finland.
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  • Osman Fajardo, Fairtrade-certified coffee coop PAOLT in Trinidad, Santa Bárbara, Honduras.
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  • Dark red cocoa pods grow on a cocoa tree at COAGRICSAL in La Entrada, Copán, Honduras
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  • Coffee plantlets are transplanted into growing bags by hand. Extensive coffee and cocoa nurseries are run at the COAGRICSAL cooperative in La Entrada, Copán, Honduras.
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  • Edgardo Barahona, Dos Bocas, Santa Rosa de Aguán, Honduras. Standing crops of maize and beans have been lost across the region because of the floods caused by hurricanes Eta and iota. Some rotted, some dried out, some sprouted, all were lost.
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