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  • Honduras_Hawkey_20180812_4875.jpg
  • Isaiah Alvarado Alvarado (señor)<br />
Digna Xiomara Flores Acosta (señora)<br />
<br />
Llegamos a los estados unidos, fuimos como familia.<br />
Siempre fue difícil llegar allí a los estados unidos. Estuvimos ocho meses allí. Llegaron adonde estábamos habitando, los de la migra. Pero gracias a Dios aquí estamos.<br />
<br />
Llegamos en avión<br />
<br />
Habíamos ahorrado un poquito de dinero, así que este proyecto ha sido una bendición para nosotros. Para mi hija y para mi familia, mi esposa. Nos sentimos agradecidos con la ayuda que nos han brindado.<br />
<br />
Es una bendición que estas ayudas nos han ayudado a nosotros y que sigan para otros que vienen también deportados.<br />
<br />
 Siendo buenos administradores, trabajando, la ayuda sirve de mucho.<br />
<br />
Hemos estado yendo a las reuniones en la oficina y en otros lugares. Hemos aprendido y nos sentimos alegres.<br />
<br />
Con este apoyo nos hemos levantado, sentimos que hemos dejado la desesperación atrás,  que vamos a seguir adelante. <br />
<br />
Viajar como familia para allá, no es normal, no es fácil. Fui yo con mi hija y con el coyote. Pasar por todo el país de México, y pasar por las fronteras, cruzar el río, todo es difícil.<br />
<br />
Estuvimos en la casa del migrante, recuperando y esperando.<br />
<br />
Este negocio, no es grande verdad, pero la gente viene a comprar, estamos abiertos a toda hora para vender cositas, necesidades, artículos de primera necesidad.
    Honduras_Hawkey_returned_migrants_20...jpg
  • A boy pulls ticks from a cows face, Langue, Valle, Honduras. The cattle are resting because of heat exhaustion in this area that is affected by droughts and climate change.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Jesus_20160729_063.jpg
  • Jesús García Hernández, in the village of Los Horcones, Langue, Valle, Honduras. "The community is affected by a prolonged drought. We’ve just lost another harvest, it’s gone on for nine years. Winters used to be good, we’d have rain. Now we have years where there’s no water in the streams, the rivers, the wells. We need water, without it we suffer. The crops need water, without it they don’t grow and we don’t get a crop, it’s simple. The trees keep the humidity, but man has chopped down the trees. Now the trees that are left are drying up”.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Jesus_20160729_030.jpg
  • An indigenous Q'eqchi woman with her baby in Concepción Actelá, Alta Verapaz.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Alta_Verapaz_201607...jpg
  • Mayra y Stefanie Coc, indigenous Q'eqchis in Concepción Actelá, Alta Verapaz.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Alta_Verapaz_201607...jpg
  • Isaiah Alvarado Alvarado (señor)<br />
Digna Xiomara Flores Acosta (señora)<br />
<br />
Llegamos a los estados unidos, fuimos como familia.<br />
Siempre fue difícil llegar allí a los estados unidos. Estuvimos ocho meses allí. Llegaron adonde estábamos habitando, los de la migra. Pero gracias a Dios aquí estamos.<br />
<br />
Llegamos en avión<br />
<br />
Habíamos ahorrado un poquito de dinero, así que este proyecto ha sido una bendición para nosotros. Para mi hija y para mi familia, mi esposa. Nos sentimos agradecidos con la ayuda que nos han brindado.<br />
<br />
Es una bendición que estas ayudas nos han ayudado a nosotros y que sigan para otros que vienen también deportados.<br />
<br />
 Siendo buenos administradores, trabajando, la ayuda sirve de mucho.<br />
<br />
Hemos estado yendo a las reuniones en la oficina y en otros lugares. Hemos aprendido y nos sentimos alegres.<br />
<br />
Con este apoyo nos hemos levantado, sentimos que hemos dejado la desesperación atrás,  que vamos a seguir adelante. <br />
<br />
Viajar como familia para allá, no es normal, no es fácil. Fui yo con mi hija y con el coyote. Pasar por todo el país de México, y pasar por las fronteras, cruzar el río, todo es difícil.<br />
<br />
Estuvimos en la casa del migrante, recuperando y esperando.<br />
<br />
Este negocio, no es grande verdad, pero la gente viene a comprar, estamos abiertos a toda hora para vender cositas, necesidades, artículos de primera necesidad.
    Honduras_Hawkey_returned_migrants_20...jpg
  • 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.
    Honduras_Hawkey_LWF_0710.jpg
  • A young indigenous Pech mother with her son in Olancho, Honduras
    honduras_hawkey_20170814_300.jpg
  • Jimena Pereira, a young student at the International COMSA school in Marcala, La Paz. The school was built and is run with Fairtrade premium money. (Full permission, informed consent)
    Honduras_Hawkey_Fairtrade_20190218_4...jpg
  • Selenia Vanegas, coffee producer with COMSA cooperative in Santiago Puringla, La Paz. Selenia was a migrant and lived in the New York working for six years.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Fairtrade_20190217_7...jpg
  • At home in a Q'eqchi house in Concepción Actelá, Alta Verapaz. World Renew is beginning to work in Concepción Actelá, through its Guatemalan partner ADIP.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Alta_Verapaz_201607...jpg
  • Concepción Actelá, Alta Verapaz.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Alta_Verapaz_201607...jpg
  • Cristobal Coc with his daughter Stefanie in Concepción Actelá.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Alta_Verapaz_201607...jpg
  • 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.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201120_25...jpg
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  • Odilia Villatoro with her baby Domingo Isaac. Odilla's family work with the Maya Ixil coffee cooperative in the department of Quiche, Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Maya_Ixil_20120312_...jpg
  • Faustino de Jesús Cortés Cortés is from La Vainilla, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua. “I’ve been working with CIEETS, and they’ve helped us with fruit trees, mangos, papaya and other fruits, they’re just maturing and we’ll get some fruit from them soon. We have citrus fruits, we’ve built level curves, barriers, we have natural medicines like lemon grass, we have pitahayas, achiote – which is good for the bees, but it’s also good for cooking, we use it ourselves, and it’s better than what you find in the shops. We have ornamental plants too, flowering plants for the bees. All this is good for us, for the family. We haven’t had a lot of success with the Meliponas, yet, but we will, we’ll keep trying. We have planted a lot of achiote, the bees love it. We have papaya, plenty of yuca, and plenty of quequisque that’s good for the nutrition, it’s the basics, and we have coconut, and peaches, star fruit. As all this goes up, we are creating the best conditions for the family to live well, it’s all new, we planted it all with CIEETS. What we want is to carry on improving, and all this will strengthen us. CIEETS has helped us move forwards”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190614_658.jpg
  • Jesus the Carpenter<br />
<br />
Jesús Alberto Mayorga Lemus, Copán Ruinas<br />
<br />
"We were poor. My parents couldn’t afford to send us to school. So I decided to learn a trade to earn some money. I decided to learn carpentry and I went to work. I was 13. I didn’t get paid for three years. My shoes were broken and I had patches in my trousers. It was hard. When I was visiting my girlfriend I had to hide the holes in my shoes by putting my foot up behind me.<br />
<br />
I’ve suffered, but you learn from suffering and you can use it to become better - a better son, a better brother, a better friend, a better husband. Without God, we aren’t anything.<br />
<br />
I fell in love and got married when I was 16 and a half. We had four children."
    Honduras_Hawkey_20180319_2633.jpg
  • Jesus the Carpenter<br />
<br />
Jesús Alberto Mayorga Lemus, Copán Ruinas<br />
<br />
"We were poor. My parents couldn’t afford to send us to school. So I decided to learn a trade to earn some money. I decided to learn carpentry and I went to work. I was 13. I didn’t get paid for three years. My shoes were broken and I had patches in my trousers. It was hard. When I was visiting my girlfriend I had to hide the holes in my shoes by putting my foot up behind me.<br />
<br />
I’ve suffered, but you learn from suffering and you can use it to become better - a better son, a better brother, a better friend, a better husband. Without God, we aren’t anything.<br />
<br />
I fell in love and got married when I was 16 and a half. We had four children."
    Honduras_Hawkey_20180319_2538.jpg
  • Jesus the Carpenter<br />
<br />
Jesús Alberto Mayorga Lemus, Copán Ruinas<br />
<br />
"We were poor. My parents couldn’t afford to send us to school. So I decided to learn a trade to earn some money. I decided to learn carpentry and I went to work. I was 13. I didn’t get paid for three years. My shoes were broken and I had patches in my trousers. It was hard. When I was visiting my girlfriend I had to hide the holes in my shoes by putting my foot up behind me.<br />
<br />
I’ve suffered, but you learn from suffering and you can use it to become better - a better son, a better brother, a better friend, a better husband. Without God, we aren’t anything.<br />
<br />
I fell in love and got married when I was 16 and a half. We had four children."
    Honduras_Hawkey_20180319_2558.jpg
  • Jesus the Carpenter<br />
<br />
Jesús Alberto Mayorga Lemus, Copán Ruinas<br />
<br />
"We were poor. My parents couldn’t afford to send us to school. So I decided to learn a trade to earn some money. I decided to learn carpentry and I went to work. I was 13. I didn’t get paid for three years. My shoes were broken and I had patches in my trousers. It was hard. When I was visiting my girlfriend I had to hide the holes in my shoes by putting my foot up behind me.<br />
<br />
I’ve suffered, but you learn from suffering and you can use it to become better - a better son, a better brother, a better friend, a better husband. Without God, we aren’t anything.<br />
<br />
I fell in love and got married when I was 16 and a half. We had four children."
    Honduras_Hawkey_20180319_2525.jpg
  • Jesus the Carpenter<br />
<br />
Jesús Alberto Mayorga Lemus, Copán Ruinas<br />
<br />
"We were poor. My parents couldn’t afford to send us to school. So I decided to learn a trade to earn some money. I decided to learn carpentry and I went to work. I was 13. I didn’t get paid for three years. My shoes were broken and I had patches in my trousers. It was hard. When I was visiting my girlfriend I had to hide the holes in my shoes by putting my foot up behind me.<br />
<br />
I’ve suffered, but you learn from suffering and you can use it to become better - a better son, a better brother, a better friend, a better husband. Without God, we aren’t anything.<br />
<br />
I fell in love and got married when I was 16 and a half. We had four children."
    Honduras_Hawkey_20180319_2493.jpg
  • Fausto de Jesús Vásquez, Los Patios, La Paz<br />
<br />
No recuerdo. Ah sí, conocí a mi esposa, trabajando. Ella traía la comida cuando trabajabamos en el campo, la mire y me enamoré de ella. Tuvimos dos hijos. <br />
<br />
Nací en Nahuaterique. Nahuaterique fue El Salvador, ahora es Honduras. Tenemos doble nacionalidad. (Nahuaterique fue parte de una disputa fronteriza entre El Salvador y Honduras, pasando a Honduras con una decisión de la Corte International en La Haya en 1992)<br />
<br />
Estoy muriendo. Estoy rodeado de mi familia, mis hijos viven cerca. Aqui la naturaleza es abundante, da bien para maize y frijol, café, yuca. Trabajé con hortalizas también, tomates, pepinos, para vender.<br />
<br />
Miramos de todo, en ese tiempo, en la guerra. Perdimos todo, pero son cosas materiales, todo eso se repone, la vida es que no se repone, los muertos no hacen nada. Reconstruimos todo después de la Guerra.<br />
<br />
******<br />
<br />
I don’t remember. Ah, yes, I met my wife, working. She would bring the food to us when we worked in the fields, I saw her, and I fell in love with her. We had two children.<br />
<br />
I was born in Nahuaterique. Nahuaterique was in El Salvador, now it is in Honduras. We have double nationality. (Nahuaterique was part of an international border dispute between El Salvador and Honduras that was resolved by the International Court at the Hague in 1992, passing to Honduran administration)<br />
<br />
I’m dying. I am surrounded by my family. My children live nearby. Here nature is abundant, it’s good for maize and beans, coffee, yuca. I worked with vegetables too, tomatos, cucumbers, to sell.<br />
<br />
We saw a bit of everything in that time, in the war. We lost everything, the house, all our things, but they are material things, you can get all that again, life is what you can’t get back if you lose it, the dead can’t do anything. We rebuilt everything after the war.
    Honduras_Hawkey_20180311_725.jpg
  • Father Martin Newell, Passionist priest<br />
<br />
I’m here because we have a climate emergency, we need to make radical changes to our economy, and to do that we need a political earthquake. To make it happen, we need a non-violent civil uprising. We need to have a zero-carbon economy by 2030 at the latest. This sort of change is unprecedented in human history, so we want the government to declare an emergency, to deal with this as an emergency, not business as usual, Getting arrested, going to prison, that’s something I’m willing to do, it’s not something I want to do, I have other things I'd rather being doing with my life, but I’m willing to do it to make this happen. And there are many of us willing to make sacrifices. For me, I’m trying to follow Jesus, he showed us the redemptive power of suffering love, on the cross and in his passion, that’s the way of the cross, it’s the path I am called to follow in these situations".
    UK_Hawkey_ExtinctionRebellion_201904...jpg
  • Faustino de Jesús Cortés Cortés is from La Vainilla, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua. “I’ve been working with CIEETS, and they’ve helped us with fruit trees, mangos, papaya and other fruits, they’re just maturing and we’ll get some fruit from them soon. We have citrus fruits, we’ve built level curves, barriers, we have natural medicines like lemon grass, we have pitahayas, achiote – which is good for the bees, but it’s also good for cooking, we use it ourselves, and it’s better than what you find in the shops. We have ornamental plants too, flowering plants for the bees. All this is good for us, for the family. We haven’t had a lot of success with the Meliponas, yet, but we will, we’ll keep trying. We have planted a lot of achiote, the bees love it. We have papaya, plenty of yuca, and plenty of quequisque that’s good for the nutrition, it’s the basics, and we have coconut, and peaches, star fruit. As all this goes up, we are creating the best conditions for the family to live well, it’s all new, we planted it all with CIEETS. What we want is to carry on improving, and all this will strengthen us. CIEETS has helped us move forwards”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190614_664.jpg
  • Ricardo Umaña Aragón "we've grown bananas, fruit trees, mango, guava, peach, papaya, custard apple, jocote, and they gave us seeds for cucumbers, squash. And they gave me a toilet. And here they've taught us to become economical and organic, we don't use any bought synthetic chemical fertilizer or insecticide, it's all natural. And I've been working with poultry too. And, you should see, since I've done all this, all the iguanas have come back, they've built a nest here, I love seeing them, I won't kill them. And birds come here, tucans, parrots, everything. I am really impressed with what happens on a farm when you only use organic material".
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1491.jpg
  • Jesus the Carpenter<br />
<br />
Jesús Alberto Mayorga Lemus, Copán Ruinas<br />
<br />
"We were poor. My parents couldn’t afford to send us to school. So I decided to learn a trade to earn some money. I decided to learn carpentry and I went to work. I was 13. I didn’t get paid for three years. My shoes were broken and I had patches in my trousers. It was hard. When I was visiting my girlfriend I had to hide the holes in my shoes by putting my foot up behind me.<br />
<br />
I’ve suffered, but you learn from suffering and you can use it to become better - a better son, a better brother, a better friend, a better husband. Without God, we aren’t anything.<br />
<br />
I fell in love and got married when I was 16 and a half. We had four children."
    Honduras_Hawkey_20180319_2590.jpg
  • Fausto de Jesús Vásquez, Los Patios, La Paz<br />
<br />
No recuerdo. Ah sí, conocí a mi esposa, trabajando. Ella traía la comida cuando trabajabamos en el campo, la mire y me enamoré de ella. Tuvimos dos hijos. <br />
<br />
Nací en Nahuaterique. Nahuaterique fue El Salvador, ahora es Honduras. Tenemos doble nacionalidad. (Nahuaterique fue parte de una disputa fronteriza entre El Salvador y Honduras, pasando a Honduras con una decisión de la Corte International en La Haya en 1992)<br />
<br />
Estoy muriendo. Estoy rodeado de mi familia, mis hijos viven cerca. Aqui la naturaleza es abundante, da bien para maize y frijol, café, yuca. Trabajé con hortalizas también, tomates, pepinos, para vender.<br />
<br />
Miramos de todo, en ese tiempo, en la guerra. Perdimos todo, pero son cosas materiales, todo eso se repone, la vida es que no se repone, los muertos no hacen nada. Reconstruimos todo después de la Guerra.<br />
<br />
******<br />
<br />
I don’t remember. Ah, yes, I met my wife, working. She would bring the food to us when we worked in the fields, I saw her, and I fell in love with her. We had two children.<br />
<br />
I was born in Nahuaterique. Nahuaterique was in El Salvador, now it is in Honduras. We have double nationality. (Nahuaterique was part of an international border dispute between El Salvador and Honduras that was resolved by the International Court at the Hague in 1992, passing to Honduran administration)<br />
<br />
I’m dying. I am surrounded by my family. My children live nearby. Here nature is abundant, it’s good for maize and beans, coffee, yuca. I worked with vegetables too, tomatos, cucumbers, to sell.<br />
<br />
We saw a bit of everything in that time, in the war. We lost everything, the house, all our things, but they are material things, you can get all that again, life is what you can’t get back if you lose it, the dead can’t do anything. We rebuilt everything after the war.
    Honduras_Hawkey_20180311_736.jpg
  • Fausto de Jesús Vásquez, Los Patios, La Paz<br />
<br />
No recuerdo. Ah sí, conocí a mi esposa, trabajando. Ella traía la comida cuando trabajabamos en el campo, la mire y me enamoré de ella. Tuvimos dos hijos. <br />
<br />
Nací en Nahuaterique. Nahuaterique fue El Salvador, ahora es Honduras. Tenemos doble nacionalidad. (Nahuaterique fue parte de una disputa fronteriza entre El Salvador y Honduras, pasando a Honduras con una decisión de la Corte International en La Haya en 1992)<br />
<br />
Estoy muriendo. Estoy rodeado de mi familia, mis hijos viven cerca. Aqui la naturaleza es abundante, da bien para maize y frijol, café, yuca. Trabajé con hortalizas también, tomates, pepinos, para vender.<br />
<br />
Miramos de todo, en ese tiempo, en la guerra. Perdimos todo, pero son cosas materiales, todo eso se repone, la vida es que no se repone, los muertos no hacen nada. Reconstruimos todo después de la Guerra.<br />
<br />
******<br />
<br />
I don’t remember. Ah, yes, I met my wife, working. She would bring the food to us when we worked in the fields, I saw her, and I fell in love with her. We had two children.<br />
<br />
I was born in Nahuaterique. Nahuaterique was in El Salvador, now it is in Honduras. We have double nationality. (Nahuaterique was part of an international border dispute between El Salvador and Honduras that was resolved by the International Court at the Hague in 1992, passing to Honduran administration)<br />
<br />
I’m dying. I am surrounded by my family. My children live nearby. Here nature is abundant, it’s good for maize and beans, coffee, yuca. I worked with vegetables too, tomatos, cucumbers, to sell.<br />
<br />
We saw a bit of everything in that time, in the war. We lost everything, the house, all our things, but they are material things, you can get all that again, life is what you can’t get back if you lose it, the dead can’t do anything. We rebuilt everything after the war.
    Honduras_Hawkey_20180311_735.jpg
  • Jesus Waiting to Die. <br />
<br />
Fausto de Jesús Vásquez, Los Patios, La Paz <br />
<br />
"I don’t remember. Ah, yes, I met my wife, working. She would bring the food to us when we worked in the fields, I saw her, and I fell in love with her. We had two children.<br />
<br />
I was born in Nahuaterique. Nahuaterique was in El Salvador, now it is in Honduras. We have double nationality. (Nahuaterique was part of an international border dispute between El Salvador and Honduras that was resolved by the International Court at the Hague in 1992, passing to Honduran administration)<br />
<br />
I’m dying. I am surrounded by my family. My children live nearby. Here nature is abundant, it’s good for maize and beans, coffee, yuca. I worked with vegetables too, tomatos, cucumbers, to sell.<br />
We saw a bit of everything in that time, in the war. We lost everything, the house, all our things, but they are material things, you can get all that again, life is what you can’t get back if you lose it, the dead can’t do anything. We rebuilt everything after the war." <br />
<br />
The health service in Honduras has been affected by large-scale embezzlement by senior government officials including the substitution of medical pharmaceuticals with tablets made of flour.<br />
<br />
Jesus died peacefully at home in April.
    Honduras_Hawkey_20180311_722.jpg
  • Faustino de Jesús Cortés Cortés is from La Vainilla, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua. In this picture he is with his daughter and grandson. “I’ve been working with CIEETS, and they’ve helped us with fruit trees, mangos, papaya and other fruits, they’re just maturing and we’ll get some fruit from them soon. We have citrus fruits, we’ve built level curves, barriers, we have natural medicines like lemon grass, we have pitahayas, achiote – which is good for the bees, but it’s also good for cooking, we use it ourselves, and it’s better than what you find in the shops. We have ornamental plants too, flowering plants for the bees. All this is good for us, for the family. We haven’t had a lot of success with the Meliponas, yet, but we will, we’ll keep trying. We have planted a lot of achiote, the bees love it. We have papaya, plenty of yuca, and plenty of quequisque that’s good for the nutrition, it’s the basics, and we have coconut, and peaches, star fruit. As all this goes up, we are creating the best conditions for the family to live well, it’s all new, we planted it all with CIEETS. What we want is to carry on improving, and all this will strengthen us. CIEETS has helped us move forwards”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190614_690.jpg
  • Faustino de Jesús Cortés Cortés is from La Vainilla, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua. “I’ve been working with CIEETS, and they’ve helped us with fruit trees, mangos, papaya and other fruits, they’re just maturing and we’ll get some fruit from them soon. We have citrus fruits, we’ve built level curves, barriers, we have natural medicines like lemon grass, we have pitahayas, achiote – which is good for the bees, but it’s also good for cooking, we use it ourselves, and it’s better than what you find in the shops. We have ornamental plants too, flowering plants for the bees. All this is good for us, for the family. We haven’t had a lot of success with the Meliponas, yet, but we will, we’ll keep trying. We have planted a lot of achiote, the bees love it. We have papaya, plenty of yuca, and plenty of quequisque that’s good for the nutrition, it’s the basics, and we have coconut, and peaches, star fruit. As all this goes up, we are creating the best conditions for the family to live well, it’s all new, we planted it all with CIEETS. What we want is to carry on improving, and all this will strengthen us. CIEETS has helped us move forwards”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190614_667.jpg
  • Faustino de Jesús Cortés Cortés is from La Vainilla, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua. “I’ve been working with CIEETS, and they’ve helped us with fruit trees, mangos, papaya and other fruits, they’re just maturing and we’ll get some fruit from them soon. We have citrus fruits, we’ve built level curves, barriers, we have natural medicines like lemon grass, we have pitahayas, achiote – which is good for the bees, but it’s also good for cooking, we use it ourselves, and it’s better than what you find in the shops. We have ornamental plants too, flowering plants for the bees. All this is good for us, for the family. We haven’t had a lot of success with the Meliponas, yet, but we will, we’ll keep trying. We have planted a lot of achiote, the bees love it. We have papaya, plenty of yuca, and plenty of quequisque that’s good for the nutrition, it’s the basics, and we have coconut, and peaches, star fruit. As all this goes up, we are creating the best conditions for the family to live well, it’s all new, we planted it all with CIEETS. What we want is to carry on improving, and all this will strengthen us. CIEETS has helped us move forwards”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190614_647.jpg
  • Bananas on the farm of Ricardo Umaña Aragón. He says "we've grown bananas, fruit trees, mango, guava, peach, papaya, custard apple, jocote, and they gave us seeds for cucumbers, squash. And they gave me a toilet. And here they've taught us to become economical and organic, we don't use any bought synthetic chemical fertilizer or insecticide, it's all natural. And I've been working with poultry too. And, you should see, since I've done all this, all the iguanas have come back, they've built a nest here, I love seeing them, I won't kill them. And birds come here, tucans, parrots, everything. I am really impressed with what happens on a farm when you only use organic material".
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1513.jpg
  • Jesus the Carpenter<br />
<br />
Jesús Alberto Mayorga Lemus, Copán Ruinas<br />
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"We were poor. My parents couldn’t afford to send us to school. So I decided to learn a trade to earn some money. I decided to learn carpentry and I went to work. I was 13. I didn’t get paid for three years. My shoes were broken and I had patches in my trousers. It was hard. When I was visiting my girlfriend I had to hide the holes in my shoes by putting my foot up behind me.<br />
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I’ve suffered, but you learn from suffering and you can use it to become better - a better son, a better brother, a better friend, a better husband. Without God, we aren’t anything.<br />
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I fell in love and got married when I was 16 and a half. We had four children."
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  • Jesus the Carpenter<br />
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Jesús Alberto Mayorga Lemus, Copán Ruinas<br />
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"We were poor. My parents couldn’t afford to send us to school. So I decided to learn a trade to earn some money. I decided to learn carpentry and I went to work. I was 13. I didn’t get paid for three years. My shoes were broken and I had patches in my trousers. It was hard. When I was visiting my girlfriend I had to hide the holes in my shoes by putting my foot up behind me.<br />
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I’ve suffered, but you learn from suffering and you can use it to become better - a better son, a better brother, a better friend, a better husband. Without God, we aren’t anything.<br />
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I fell in love and got married when I was 16 and a half. We had four children."
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  • Maria Jesús Medina Pineda, Ciudad Nueva, Marcala<br />
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My mother died when I was five years old, we were ten brothers and sisters. We grew up, how could I tell you, it was a horrible thing. My father had already left the country because of political problems. Damned political parties. They wanted to kill him. We suffered a lot of hunger. The family disintegrated, some left, some died. I stayed with my older sister, she’s still alive, she’ll be 100 years old in September.<br />
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I haven’t always lived here, I used to live near the Catholic church in Marcala. But because we toast coffee, the smoke polluted the air in the city, so we moved out here. I’m 80 and I work every day. That’s the secret to eternal youth, work hard and be honest, I have no ailments, I’m healthy. I had three children, one is in the United States. The boy manages the coffee factory. We prepare, toast and sell coffee in bags. We have been toasting coffee for 40 years, I was the first to do it. I began playing around with it, with plastic bags, I used to send the children out to the street to sell them, or to the neighbours, at three Colons a pound, at that time we used the Colon (Salvadorean currency), as we are near to the Salvadorean border. It’s an honest business, a healthy business. The father of my children died. I didn’t get married, I just had my children, with a military man, he was already married. I have a grandson who is a pilot and another who is a civil engineer and he’s in the United States, you can’t get work here, only if you are involved in politics you can get a job here.<br />
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I fell madly in love with the military man, I was about 22 years old, I had my kids with him.<br />
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With the business, I began in shocking poverty. We didn’t know what to do then. I worked as a secretary in the Junta Nacional. And I worked in the high command of the Army, from four until nine at night. I earned 225 Lempiras in the Junta, and 150 in the high command. I’d put aside 30 Lempiras for the c
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  • Fausto de Jesús Vásquez, Los Patios, La Paz<br />
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No recuerdo. Ah sí, conocí a mi esposa, trabajando. Ella traía la comida cuando trabajabamos en el campo, la mire y me enamoré de ella. Tuvimos dos hijos. <br />
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Nací en Nahuaterique. Nahuaterique fue El Salvador, ahora es Honduras. Tenemos doble nacionalidad. (Nahuaterique fue parte de una disputa fronteriza entre El Salvador y Honduras, pasando a Honduras con una decisión de la Corte International en La Haya en 1992)<br />
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Estoy muriendo. Estoy rodeado de mi familia, mis hijos viven cerca. Aqui la naturaleza es abundante, da bien para maize y frijol, café, yuca. Trabajé con hortalizas también, tomates, pepinos, para vender.<br />
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Miramos de todo, en ese tiempo, en la guerra. Perdimos todo, pero son cosas materiales, todo eso se repone, la vida es que no se repone, los muertos no hacen nada. Reconstruimos todo después de la Guerra.<br />
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I don’t remember. Ah, yes, I met my wife, working. She would bring the food to us when we worked in the fields, I saw her, and I fell in love with her. We had two children.<br />
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I was born in Nahuaterique. Nahuaterique was in El Salvador, now it is in Honduras. We have double nationality. (Nahuaterique was part of an international border dispute between El Salvador and Honduras that was resolved by the International Court at the Hague in 1992, passing to Honduran administration)<br />
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I’m dying. I am surrounded by my family. My children live nearby. Here nature is abundant, it’s good for maize and beans, coffee, yuca. I worked with vegetables too, tomatos, cucumbers, to sell.<br />
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We saw a bit of everything in that time, in the war. We lost everything, the house, all our things, but they are material things, you can get all that again, life is what you can’t get back if you lose it, the dead can’t do anything. We rebuilt everything after the war.
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  • Fausto de Jesús Vásquez, Los Patios, La Paz<br />
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No recuerdo. Ah sí, conocí a mi esposa, trabajando. Ella traía la comida cuando trabajabamos en el campo, la mire y me enamoré de ella. Tuvimos dos hijos. <br />
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Nací en Nahuaterique. Nahuaterique fue El Salvador, ahora es Honduras. Tenemos doble nacionalidad. (Nahuaterique fue parte de una disputa fronteriza entre El Salvador y Honduras, pasando a Honduras con una decisión de la Corte International en La Haya en 1992)<br />
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Estoy muriendo. Estoy rodeado de mi familia, mis hijos viven cerca. Aqui la naturaleza es abundante, da bien para maize y frijol, café, yuca. Trabajé con hortalizas también, tomates, pepinos, para vender.<br />
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Miramos de todo, en ese tiempo, en la guerra. Perdimos todo, pero son cosas materiales, todo eso se repone, la vida es que no se repone, los muertos no hacen nada. Reconstruimos todo después de la Guerra.<br />
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I don’t remember. Ah, yes, I met my wife, working. She would bring the food to us when we worked in the fields, I saw her, and I fell in love with her. We had two children.<br />
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I was born in Nahuaterique. Nahuaterique was in El Salvador, now it is in Honduras. We have double nationality. (Nahuaterique was part of an international border dispute between El Salvador and Honduras that was resolved by the International Court at the Hague in 1992, passing to Honduran administration)<br />
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I’m dying. I am surrounded by my family. My children live nearby. Here nature is abundant, it’s good for maize and beans, coffee, yuca. I worked with vegetables too, tomatos, cucumbers, to sell.<br />
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We saw a bit of everything in that time, in the war. We lost everything, the house, all our things, but they are material things, you can get all that again, life is what you can’t get back if you lose it, the dead can’t do anything. We rebuilt everything after the war.
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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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  • 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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  • Juana Zuniga, Guapinol, partner of José Abelino Cedillo, one of the men who has been in prison for 15 months for protesting against the mining company in Guapinol.<br />
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"The struggle we have here is in defence of this lovely river. The mining company Los Pinares ha been causing damage here since 2018. We began our struggle when we couldn't use the water from this river for seven months, it's essential for this community. This river provides the water for more than 3,000 people in the community... We began our struggle, a non-violent struggle, we wanted to recover our river as when the mining company started work the water turned into thick chocolatey substance that even the animals didn't want to drink. It was sad, we had to start buying large bottles of water. But some people didn't have the money to do that, we suffered seven months with water like that. Thank God, the water is clean again, but the flow is reduced, we don't know what the mine is doing to make that happen. For us, water is life, it is eveything. We have eight men in prison in Olanchito, without any evidence against them, we want them back, and we want the mining company to leave."
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  • Diana Gallego Vargas, part of the technical team for Andes Coop. The team of 14 agronomists that visit the 3500 farmers, is paid for using Fairtrade Premium. Diana has a degree in agriculture and is much loved by the farmers she visits, teaching them techniques to reduce costs, improved quality and volume of output and maximise their incomes.<br />
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Here Diana gives a course to farmers on identifying defects in coffee.
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  • Diana Gallego Vargas, part of the technical team for Andes Coop. The team of 14 agronomists that visit the 3500 farmers, is paid for using Fairtrade Premium. Diana has a degree in agriculture and is much loved by the farmers she visits, teaching them techniques to reduce costs, improved quality and volume of output and maximise their incomes.
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  • Juana Zuniga, Guapinol, partner of José Abelino Cedillo, one of the men who has been in prison for 15 months for protesting against the mining company in Guapinol.<br />
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"The struggle we have here is in defence of this lovely river. The mining company Los Pinares ha been causing damage here since 2018. We began our struggle when we couldn't use the water from this river for seven months, it's essential for this community. This river provides the water for more than 3,000 people in the community... We began our struggle, a non-violent struggle, we wanted to recover our river as when the mining company started work the water turned into thick chocolatey substance that even the animals didn't want to drink. It was sad, we had to start buying large bottles of water. But some people didn't have the money to do that, we suffered seven months with water like that. Thank God, the water is clean again, but the flow is reduced, we don't know what the mine is doing to make that happen. For us, water is life, it is eveything. We have eight men in prison in Olanchito, without any evidence against them, we want them back, and we want the mining company to leave."
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201203_86...jpg
  • Diana Gallego Vargas, part of the technical team for Andes Coop. The team of 14 agronomists that visit the 3500 farmers, is paid for using Fairtrade Premium. Diana has a degree in agriculture and is much loved by the farmers she visits, teaching them techniques to reduce costs, improved quality and volume of output and maximise their incomes.<br />
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Here Diana gives a course to farmers on identifying defects in coffee.
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  • Diana Gallego Vargas, part of the technical team for Andes Coop. The team of 14 agronomists that visit the 3500 farmers, is paid for using Fairtrade Premium. Diana has a degree in agriculture and is much loved by the farmers she visits, teaching them techniques to reduce costs, improved quality and volume of output and maximise their incomes.
    Colombia_Hawkey_FT_Antioquia_2017090...jpg
  • Diana Gallego Vargas, part of the technical team for Andes Coop. The team of 14 agronomists that visit the 3500 farmers, is paid for using Fairtrade Premium. Diana has a degree in agriculture and is much loved by the farmers she visits, teaching them techniques to reduce costs, improved quality and volume of output and maximise their incomes.
    Colombia_Hawkey_FT_Antioquia_2017090...jpg