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  • I’m Reina Isabal Calix, I’m a survivor of the massacre of Santa Clara and Horcones. The massacre happened on the 25 June 1975. There was a plan by landowners and military, Coronel Chinchilla. They confused work for the common good with work for communism. We were working for the common good. They prepared to crush us. We were a group of religious people, priests, farmers, women. We were struggling for agrarian reform. All we really wanted was for people to have enough land to plant food for themselves, to have their daily bread, for their children and families. We were united, teachers, poor farmers, young people, students, workers, priests. It was a big struggle, but they wanted to crush it. <br />
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There was a Colombian priest here called Ivan Betancourt. There was also an American priest called Casimiro Zypher. They were both killed too, along with the campesinos and students. <br />
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At that time, speaking about the common good, was like promoting communism. There was a plan, to destroy everything we were doing and slow down the agrarian reform. <br />
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We had a shop, radiofonica school, they killed the person who ran it. We used to train carpenters and mechanics here.<br />
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We planned a march, 5000 people came. They couldn’t stop it. But, the soldiers came in here using students as a cover, it was a trick. Three people died right here, in the centre. <br />
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Others were taken to the prison. Father Casimiro died being tortured during interrogation. Later they took them to a farm, and most were killed there, they threw the bodies down a well. Fourteen people were killed.
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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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  • 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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  • A boy 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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  • 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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  • 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".
    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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  • A girl reclines on a tree in El Burillo, Honduras
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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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  • 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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  • 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 boy carries a water container to his house in El Burrillo, Valle, Honduras
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  • A young girl with a baby on a hammock in El Burillo village, Valle, Honduras.
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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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  • trees at sunset, Olancho
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  • Baked snacks are withdrawn from the oven by the womens group in El Tule
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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.
    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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  • 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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  • 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".
    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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  • In the village of El Tule, Olancho, men kill some chickens.
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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".
    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
  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Schoolgirls in a doorway in El Burrillo, Valle, Honduras
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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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  • Benigno López, Dos Quebradas.
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  • farmers walk home after a day's work
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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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  • Cristi Carina Reyes lives in Tempisque, Langue, Valle, Honduras with her family. Many water wells in the area have dried. This means that people have to walk long distances to collect water. Cristi walks about an hour a day collecting water for her family.
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  • Avilio Reyes lives in El Tempisque, Langue, Valle, Honduras. <br />
Because of dought, he's lost his main corn harvest four years in a row. "this harvest is already lost" he said "we'll put the cows in here to feed, at least they'll eat the bit of growth that there was".
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  • A child easily fishes in a pond as the Choluteca river in Honduras dries up with the drought.
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  • A bridge over the Choluteca River, also known as the Rio Grande. With the prolonged droughts in this region, because of climate change, the river frequently dries up except for ponds on the river bed.
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  • Jesus Struggling with Climate Change<br />
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Jesús García Hernández, Los Horcones, Langue, Valle<br />
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"The drought has been going on for ten years. It’s due to climate change. Winters were good before. But now we’ve had years without water here. We’ve got dry streams, rivers and wells. We lose our seeds and fertilizers; we even lose our hope sometimes.<br />
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There are families here who haven’t had a harvest for ten years. We’ve all just lost another harvest. We prepared the soil, put in the seeds and fertilizers and, when the first bit of rain came, the plants began growing. Then the rain stopped. We got nothing. Then the rain came again but it was too late. After ten years of drought the people here have used up their reserves and there’s desperation.<br />
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We’ve had to deepen the wells, but they still dry up. The water is going down - it’s climate change.<br />
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A lot of people have left the area. Some go to work in other places as labourers or security guards or cleaners. And some risk the journey to the States. What else is there to do?"
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  • Nory Paz, coffee farmer and member of the COAGRICSAL coop that is certified by Fairtrade. Mr Paz has become a local expert in organic fertilizers, taught by COAGRICSAL in a project supported by Finnish Fairtrade. Here he shows powdered minerals that he is using in his bocache (bocashi, bokashi) fertilizers.
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  • Paulina Rosales of the group Caja Lúdica that promotes projects of art and culture and formation of young people. Caja Lúdica is supported by the Lutheran World Federation.
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  • Young people learn to use stilts in a community centre in Guatemala City, as part of a project to promote a culture of peace and respect for human rights in a so-called violent Red Zone.
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  • Young people learn to use stilts in a community centre in Guatemala City, as part of a project to promote a culture of peace and respect for human rights in a so-called violent Red Zone.
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  • Young people learn to use stilts in a community centre in Guatemala City, as part of a project to promote a culture of peace and respect for human rights in a so-called violent Red Zone.
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  • La Cruz in Las Flores, Jocotán, Guatemala. This part of the country is highly affected by climate change. Rainfall patterns in the last seven years have been unreliable, with too little or too irregular rainfall to get harvest of corn and beans. Many farmers have lost the seeds they plant. As the drought seems unending, the farmers diversify their income searching for employment as day labourers, travelling often for months at a time.
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  • Lucía López Pérez en Las Flores, Jocotán, Guatemala, una zona Maya Chortí. Esta zona del país esta muy afectado por el cambio climático. La lluvia de los ultimos siete años ha sido muy poca e irrugular, si cae el agua cae cuando ya no ayuda las plantas. No se ha podido lograr una buena cosecha en varios años y cada siembra es apenas para perder la semilla. Como la sequía no acaba, los campesinos diversifican sustento buscando empleo como jornaleros, viajando frecuentemente por meses a trabajar. La Federación Luterana Mundial apoya projectos en la zona incluyendo la privisión de granos básicos.
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  • in Las Flores, Jocotán, Guatemala, a Maya-Chortí farmer rests against an adobe wall. This part of the country is highly affected by climate change. Rainfall patterns in the last seven years have been unreliable, with too little or too irregular rainfall to get harvest of corn and beans. Many farmers have lost the seeds they plant. As the drought seems unending, the farmers diversify their income searching for employment as day labourers, travelling often for months at a time.
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  • Juan García Gonzalez working on his corn field  in Las Flores, Jocotán, Guatemala, Mr Garcia is part of the Indigenous Council here. This part of the country is highly affected by climate change. Rainfall patterns in the last seven years have been unreliable, with too little or too irregular rainfall to get harvest of corn and beans. Many farmers have lost the seeds they plant. As the drought seems unending, the farmers diversify their income searching for employment as day labourers, travelling often for months at a time.
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  • A boy at the school  in Las Flores, Jocotán, Guatemala, a Maya Chortí territory. This part of the country is highly affected by climate change. Rainfall patterns in the last seven years have been unreliable, with too little or too irregular rainfall to get harvest of corn and beans. Many farmers have lost the seeds they plant. As the drought seems unending, the farmers diversify their income searching for employment as day labourers, travelling often for months at a time.
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  • Two young Q'eqchi girls in Concepción Actelá, Alta Verapaz.
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  • Children sitting on a bench in Concepción Actelá.
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  • Children wait for their father in a corn field in Concepción Actelá.
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  • This Q'eqchi man carries a load of firewood he has cut and bundled from Concepción Actelá to Santa Catalina de la Tinta in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. It's two hours walking very fast. With luck he'll get 20 Quetzales, that's $2.60 or £2.00. Then he'll walk home. He carries this very heavy load with a headband called a 'mecapal'.
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  • A family walks along a path in Concepción Actelá, the boy carries a baby wrapped in a sheet  with a headband called a 'mecapal'.
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  • Fernando Chub of World Renew's partner ADIP speaks to a village meeting in Concepción Actelá, Alta Verapaz. World Renew is beginning to work in Concepción Actelá, through its Guatemalan partner ADIP.
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  • This Q'eqchi man carries a load of firewood he has cut and bundled from Concepción Actelá to Santa Catalina de la Tinta in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. It's two hours walking very fast. With luck he'll get 20 Quetzales, that's $2.60 or £2.00. Then he'll walk home. He carries this very heavy load with a headband called a 'mecapal'.
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  • Matilde, a young Q'eqchi woman making tortillas. This is a routine at least once a day for every household.
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  • Two women in their kitchen in Concepción Actelá, Alta Verapaz
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  • Taking care of the local shop in Concepción Actelá, Alta Verapaz
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  • workers dig out the foundations of a new house in Concepción Actelá, Alta Verapaz
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  • Cristobal Coc, indigenous Q'eqchi farmer and part of a World Renew programme in Guatemala, stands in a corn field in Concepción Actelá, Alta Verapaz. Drought linked to climate change has severely affected the crops in this area over the last seven years.
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  • Just hangin' around.
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  • Sitting at the table in a Q'eqchi house in Concepción Actelá, Alta Verapaz. World Renew is beginning to work in Concepción Actelá, through its Guatemalan partner ADIP.
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  • Simona Choc in her corn field. World Renew is beginning to work in Concepción Actelá, through its Guatemalan partner ADIP.
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  • School photograph with the teachers and students in Concepción Actelá, Alta Verapaz.
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  • A young Q'eqchi boy in Concepción Actelá, Alta Verapaz. World Renew is beginning to work in Concepción Actelá, through its Guatemalan partner ADIP.
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  • A Q'eqchi boy walks on the main road in Concepción Actelá, Alta Verapaz.
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  • At home in a Q'eqchi house in Concepción Actelá, Alta Verapaz.
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  • a pickup truck goes down to the town in Santa Catalina de la Tinta twice a week from Concepción Actelá, Alta Verapaz. The rest of the time people have to walk two hours there, two hours back. This affects students who need to study in the town, they have to walk four hours a day to study. In certain agricultural seasons it is hard for a family to allow productive family members to go to study.
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  • Taking boiled maize in a bowl to the mill in Concepción Actelá. Maize is the staple grain in Guatemala and is used to make tortillas.
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  • Stefanie Coc, indigenous Q'eqchi girl, in Concepción Actelá, Alta Verapaz.
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  • Preparing a hen for a good lunch in Concepción Actelá, Alta Verapaz. Most of the people here eat vegetarian meals most of the time, simply because they can't afford meat. A chicken soup is a special meal for everyone.
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  • An indigenous Q'eqchi woman with her baby in Concepción Actelá, Alta Verapaz.
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  • Mayra y Stefanie Coc, indigenous Q'eqchis in Concepción Actelá, Alta Verapaz.
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  • Cristobal Coc, on his demonstration plot.  He has planted papaya, beans, medicinal plants, plantain, coffee, gandule beans and cane for building.
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  • Cristobal Coc, on his demonstration plot.  He has planted papaya, beans, medicinal plants, plantain, coffee, gandule beans and cane for building.
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  • waitress at the the famous chicken soup shop on the way to Sesesmil from Copan Ruins.
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  • waitress at the the famous chicken soup shop on the way to Sesesmil from Copan Ruins.
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  • Cristi Carina Reyes lives in Tempisque, Langue, Valle, Honduras with her family. Many water wells in the area have dried. This means that people have to walk long distances to collect water. Cristi walks about an hour a day collecting water for her family.
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  • Cristi Carina Reyes lives in Tempisque, Langue, Valle, Honduras with her family. Many water wells in the area have dried. This means that people have to walk long distances to collect water. Cristi walks about an hour a day collecting water for her family.
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  • Cristi Carina Reyes lives in Tempisque, Langue, Valle, Honduras with her family. Many water wells in the area have dried. This means that people have to walk long distances to collect water. Cristi walks about an hour a day collecting water for her family.
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  • Cristi Carina Reyes lives in Tempisque, Langue, Valle, Honduras with her family. Many water wells in the area have dried. This means that people have to walk long distances to collect water. Cristi walks about an hour a day collecting water for her family.
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  • Firewood on sale on the side of the road in the dry corridor near San Lorenzo, Honduras. Farmers who've lost their crops because of the drought try to make ends meet by cutting down the trees they have to sell for firewood. Cutting down the trees exacerbates the drought and decreases the chances of recovery of the water table.
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  • Maria collects water from a pond on the Choluteca River, also known as the Rio Grande. With the prolonged droughts in this region, because of climate change, the river frequently dries up except for ponds on the river bed.
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  • Maria collects water from a pond on the Choluteca River, also known as the Rio Grande. With the prolonged droughts in this region, because of climate change, the river frequently dries up except for ponds on the river bed.
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  • Maria collects water from a pond on the Choluteca River, also known as the Rio Grande. With the prolonged droughts in this region, because of climate change, the river frequently dries up except for ponds on the river bed.
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  • Children play under a bridge on the Rio Iztoca, Choluteca, Honduras. With the prolonged droughts affecting the area because of climate change, the river is mainly dried up.
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