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  • A man makes square adobes using a "gradilla" or mould. First the gradilla is wetted and then the prepared mud is thrown and pushed into it. The gradilla is removed, and the adobe is left to dry in the sun.
    el_salvador_hawkey_20121206_844.jpg
  • A woman makes traditional straw hats in La Cuchilla, Santa Bárbara, Honduras
    Honduras_Hawkey_Amnesty_20190206_713.jpg
  • A woman makes traditional straw hats in La Cuchilla, Santa Bárbara, Honduras
    Honduras_Hawkey_Amnesty_20190206_678.jpg
  • A woman prepares tea in her rural kitchen near Pondicherry
    india_hawkey_20071007_047.jpg
  • Lines of freshly made square adobes with spaces made for reinforcing between blocks. This is part of an eartquake-resistant design
    el_salvador_hawkey_20121206_851.jpg
  • Lines of freshly made square adobes with spaces made for reinforcing between blocks. This is part of an eartquake-resistant design
    el_salvador_hawkey_20121206_846.jpg
  • Lines of freshly made square adobes with spaces made for reinforcing between blocks. This is part of an eartquake-resistant design
    el_salvador_hawkey_20121206_847.jpg
  • Women use machetes to clean the underside of adobe blocks
    el_salvador_hawkey_20121206_789.jpg
  • Lines of freshly made half-square adobes with spaces made for reinforcing between blocks. This is part of an eartquake-resistant design
    el_salvador_hawkey_20121206_850.jpg
  • Adobe blocks with channels made in them to allow the casting of a bond beam without the use of shuttering
    el_salvador_hawkey_20121206_855.jpg
  • shovels and pickaxes rest against a pile of adobe blocks
    el_salvador_hawkey_20121206_396.jpg
  • Adobe bricks stacked in the sun
    el_salvador_hawkey_20121206_395.jpg
  • Carlos Andrés Enriquez Hernández, 23, Tailor, Barrio La Soledad, Juticalpa, Olancho<br />
<br />
I was in four iceboxes in the US, about three days in each. The icebox is a room where they put you with very cold air conditioning, the aim of it is to freeze you, to make you more likely to sign the form so that they can send you straight home. It really is freezing, you are on the floor, there’s no bedding, you don’t have enough clothes, your teeth chatter and you feel like you are going to die.<br />
<br />
I was deported after about 20 days. I met someone here in Juticalpa who told me about the LWF.<br />
<br />
I left my place because of danger. What does danger mean? Ha! Danger here is not an abstract concept. My whole family was threatened by a gang. Threats against your life are part of controlling you, subjecting you. My whole family had to leave. People who don’t take notice of threats like that are simply killed. We’ve lost a lot of friends and neighbours, they disappeared. The gang here use a tourniquet on your neck, that’s their signature.<br />
<br />
When I came back, I moved. I had nothing, lost everything. <br />
<br />
The LWF helped me get back on my feet. I make school uniforms, I make adjustments to clothes, I make suits and rent them for weddings. I have dreams of getting bigger to start making clothes that people here want. I have no plan to go back to the US. <br />
<br />
With skills here, and a helping hand to get on your feet, and plenty of hard work, you can make it here, you can survive.<br />
<br />
LWF's programme for deported and returned migrants is supported by ELCA.
    Honduras_Hawkey_migrants_20190121_46...jpg
  • Carlos Andrés Enriquez Hernández, 23, Tailor, Barrio La Soledad, Juticalpa, Olancho<br />
<br />
I was in four iceboxes in the US, about three days in each. The icebox is a room where they put you with very cold air conditioning, the aim of it is to freeze you, to make you more likely to sign the form so that they can send you straight home. It really is freezing, you are on the floor, there’s no bedding, you don’t have enough clothes, your teeth chatter and you feel like you are going to die.<br />
<br />
I was deported after about 20 days. I met someone here in Juticalpa who told me about the LWF.<br />
<br />
I left my place because of danger. What does danger mean? Ha! Danger here is not an abstract concept. My whole family was threatened by a gang. Threats against your life are part of controlling you, subjecting you. My whole family had to leave. People who don’t take notice of threats like that are simply killed. We’ve lost a lot of friends and neighbours, they disappeared. The gang here use a tourniquet on your neck, that’s their signature.<br />
<br />
When I came back, I moved. I had nothing, lost everything. <br />
<br />
The LWF helped me get back on my feet. I make school uniforms, I make adjustments to clothes, I make suits and rent them for weddings. I have dreams of getting bigger to start making clothes that people here want. I have no plan to go back to the US. <br />
<br />
With skills here, and a helping hand to get on your feet, and plenty of hard work, you can make it here, you can survive.<br />
<br />
LWF's programme for deported and returned migrants is supported by ELCA.
    Honduras_Hawkey_migrants_20190121_40...jpg
  • Carlos Andrés Enriquez Hernández, 23, Tailor, Barrio La Soledad, Juticalpa, Olancho<br />
<br />
I was in four iceboxes in the US, about three days in each. The icebox is a room where they put you with very cold air conditioning, the aim of it is to freeze you, to make you more likely to sign the form so that they can send you straight home. It really is freezing, you are on the floor, there’s no bedding, you don’t have enough clothes, your teeth chatter and you feel like you are going to die.<br />
<br />
I was deported after about 20 days. I met someone here in Juticalpa who told me about the LWF.<br />
<br />
I left my place because of danger. What does danger mean? Ha! Danger here is not an abstract concept. My whole family was threatened by a gang. Threats against your life are part of controlling you, subjecting you. My whole family had to leave. People who don’t take notice of threats like that are simply killed. We’ve lost a lot of friends and neighbours, they disappeared. The gang here use a tourniquet on your neck, that’s their signature.<br />
<br />
When I came back, I moved. I had nothing, lost everything. <br />
<br />
The LWF helped me get back on my feet. I make school uniforms, I make adjustments to clothes, I make suits and rent them for weddings. I have dreams of getting bigger to start making clothes that people here want. I have no plan to go back to the US. <br />
<br />
With skills here, and a helping hand to get on your feet, and plenty of hard work, you can make it here, you can survive.<br />
<br />
LWF's programme for deported and returned migrants is supported by ELCA.
    Honduras_Hawkey_migrants_20190121_46...jpg
  • Matilde, a young Q'eqchi woman making tortillas. This is a routine at least once a day for every household. young woman hand-grinding her cooked corn into a dough for making tortillas. This is a routine at least once a day for every household.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Alta_Verapaz_201607...jpg
  • Cindy Yohanna Ruíz and Isis Escarlet.<br />
<br />
Cindy (in blue):<br />
I’m a single mother with three children. I travelled, it’s a difficult journey, and you go with your heart in pieces, leaving your children behind, you don’t know if you are coming back, you go with your whole body but a lot of people come back missing an arm or a leg, there are several round here like that. And plenty of people die. But there’s no work here, there’s hunger, you can’t afford to send the kids to school. I’ve had one of my children sick, you can’t afford the medicine.<br />
<br />
Thank God, I’m back, in one piece, and thank God, the LWF has helped us get ahead. Now I have the sales, I can afford the rent on a small place, and send the kids to school, and pay for medicine.<br />
<br />
I left just out of poverty. We didn’t eat three meals a day, I didn’t have a place to live, I was sharing with my mother. <br />
<br />
I got up to Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico. I was travelling a month. I was deported back to Aguas Calientes, the border with Honduras and Guatemala. I went alone, without a smuggler, without more than 500 Lempiras. <br />
<br />
Isis (in pink):<br />
<br />
I went on my own too, no leaving my mother and kids behind, it’s painful to leave. <br />
<br />
Today, thanks to the LWF really, we’re making tortillas every day, morning and evening. And Saturdays we do chicken, roast chicken, we take it into town to sell, 50 Lempiras a portion, we do 30 portions. I make about 2,000 Lempiras a month with the tortillas. If you are humble, and I ask God for humility, and with hard work, you can survive.<br />
LWF's programme for deported and returned migrants is supported by ELCA.
    Honduras_Hawkey_migrants_20190121_59...jpg
  • Cindy Yohanna Ruíz and Isis Escarlet.<br />
<br />
Cindy (in blue):<br />
I’m a single mother with three children. I travelled, it’s a difficult journey, and you go with your heart in pieces, leaving your children behind, you don’t know if you are coming back, you go with your whole body but a lot of people come back missing an arm or a leg, there are several round here like that. And plenty of people die. But there’s no work here, there’s hunger, you can’t afford to send the kids to school. I’ve had one of my children sick, you can’t afford the medicine.<br />
<br />
Thank God, I’m back, in one piece, and thank God, the LWF has helped us get ahead. Now I have the sales, I can afford the rent on a small place, and send the kids to school, and pay for medicine.<br />
<br />
I left just out of poverty. We didn’t eat three meals a day, I didn’t have a place to live, I was sharing with my mother. <br />
<br />
I got up to Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico. I was travelling a month. I was deported back to Aguas Calientes, the border with Honduras and Guatemala. I went alone, without a smuggler, without more than 500 Lempiras. <br />
<br />
Isis (in pink):<br />
<br />
I went on my own too, no leaving my mother and kids behind, it’s painful to leave. <br />
<br />
Today, thanks to the LWF really, we’re making tortillas every day, morning and evening. And Saturdays we do chicken, roast chicken, we take it into town to sell, 50 Lempiras a portion, we do 30 portions. I make about 2,000 Lempiras a month with the tortillas. If you are humble, and I ask God for humility, and with hard work, you can survive.<br />
LWF's programme for deported and returned migrants is supported by ELCA.
    Honduras_Hawkey_migrants_20190121_55...jpg
  • Cindy Yohanna Ruíz and Isis Escarlet.<br />
<br />
Cindy (in blue):<br />
I’m a single mother with three children. I travelled, it’s a difficult journey, and you go with your heart in pieces, leaving your children behind, you don’t know if you are coming back, you go with your whole body but a lot of people come back missing an arm or a leg, there are several round here like that. And plenty of people die. But there’s no work here, there’s hunger, you can’t afford to send the kids to school. I’ve had one of my children sick, you can’t afford the medicine.<br />
<br />
Thank God, I’m back, in one piece, and thank God, the LWF has helped us get ahead. Now I have the sales, I can afford the rent on a small place, and send the kids to school, and pay for medicine.<br />
<br />
I left just out of poverty. We didn’t eat three meals a day, I didn’t have a place to live, I was sharing with my mother. <br />
<br />
I got up to Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico. I was travelling a month. I was deported back to Aguas Calientes, the border with Honduras and Guatemala. I went alone, without a smuggler, without more than 500 Lempiras. <br />
<br />
Isis (in pink):<br />
<br />
I went on my own too, no leaving my mother and kids behind, it’s painful to leave. <br />
<br />
Today, thanks to the LWF really, we’re making tortillas every day, morning and evening. And Saturdays we do chicken, roast chicken, we take it into town to sell, 50 Lempiras a portion, we do 30 portions. I make about 2,000 Lempiras a month with the tortillas. If you are humble, and I ask God for humility, and with hard work, you can survive.<br />
LWF's programme for deported and returned migrants is supported by ELCA.
    Honduras_Hawkey_migrants_20190121_53...jpg
  • 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
  • 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
  • A young man sits among the rubbish. Nicaragua's capital Managua dumps its rubbish at La Chureca. Hundreds of people make a living here from recycling plastics and metals they recover. But making an income here requires long hours of hard physical labour and the risks include poisonous waste that is dumped by the maquila industry, sharps from hospitals and viscera from the butchery trade.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20110525_718.jpg
  • A young man sits among the rubbish.. Nicaragua's capital Managua dumps its rubbish at La Chureca. Hundreds of people make a living here from recycling plastics and metals they recover. But making an income here requires long hours of hard physical labour and the risks include poisonous waste that is dumped by the maquila industry, sharps from hospitals and viscera from the butchery trade.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20110525_707.jpg
  • Nicaragua's capital Managua dumps its rubbish at La Chureca. Hundreds of people make a living here from recycling plastics and metals they recover. But making an income here requires long hours of hard physical labour and the risks include poisonous waste that is dumped by the maquila industry, sharps from hospitals and viscera from the butchery trade.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20110525_695.jpg
  • Nicaragua's capital Managua dumps its rubbish at La Chureca. Hundreds of people make a living here from recycling plastics and metals they recover. But making an income here requires long hours of hard physical labour and the risks include poisonous waste that is dumped by the maquila industry, sharps from hospitals and viscera from the butchery trade.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20110521_566.jpg
  • A man puts recylcable rubbish into his sack as a line of vultures watch over him. Nicaragua's capital Managua dumps its rubbish at La Chureca. Hundreds of people make a living here from recycling plastics and metals they recover. But making an income here requires long hours of hard physical labour and the risks include poisonous waste that is dumped by the maquila industry, sharps from hospitals and viscera from the butchery trade.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20110525_671.jpg
  • Nicaragua's capital Managua dumps its rubbish at La Chureca. Hundreds of people make a living here from recycling plastics and metals they recover. But making an income here requires long hours of hard physical labour and the risks include poisonous waste that is dumped by the maquila industry, sharps from hospitals and viscera from the butchery trade.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20110521_582.jpg
  • Clouds of smoke from burning tyres in the sky over the dump. Nicaragua's capital Managua dumps its rubbish at La Chureca. Hundreds of people make a living here from recycling plastics and metals they recover. But making an income here requires long hours of hard physical labour and the risks include poisonous waste that is dumped by the maquila industry, sharps from hospitals and viscera from the butchery trade.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20110521_575.jpg
  • Portrait of a man on the rubbish dump after a day's work. Nicaragua's capital Managua dumps its rubbish at La Chureca. Hundreds of people make a living here from recycling plastics and metals they recover. But making an income here requires long hours of hard physical labour and the risks include poisonous waste that is dumped by the maquila industry, sharps from hospitals and viscera from the butchery trade.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20110521_567.jpg
  • A man rests after a day of work at the dump. Nicaragua's capital Managua dumps its rubbish at La Chureca. Hundreds of people make a living here from recycling plastics and metals they recover. But making an income here requires long hours of hard physical labour and the risks include poisonous waste that is dumped by the maquila industry, sharps from hospitals and viscera from the butchery trade.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20110521_524.jpg
  • Nicaragua's capital Managua dumps its rubbish at La Chureca. Hundreds of people make a living here from recycling plastics and metals they recover. But making an income here requires long hours of hard physical labour and the risks include poisonous waste that is dumped by the maquila industry, sharps from hospitals and viscera from the butchery trade.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20110521_506.jpg
  • Nicaragua's capital Managua dumps its rubbish at La Chureca. Hundreds of people make a living here from recycling plastics and metals they recover. But making an income here requires long hours of hard physical labour and the risks include poisonous waste that is dumped by the maquila industry, sharps from hospitals and viscera from the butchery trade.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20110521_517.jpg
  • Nicaragua's capital Managua dumps its rubbish at La Chureca. Hundreds of people make a living here from recycling plastics and metals they recover. But making an income here requires long hours of hard physical labour and the risks include poisonous waste that is dumped by the maquila industry, sharps from hospitals and viscera from the butchery trade.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20110521_505.jpg
  • A woman sorting rubbish smiles. Nicaragua's capital Managua dumps its rubbish at La Chureca. Hundreds of people make a living here from recycling plastics and metals they recover. But making an income here requires long hours of hard physical labour and the risks include poisonous waste that is dumped by the maquila industry, sharps from hospitals and viscera from the butchery trade.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20110521_490.jpg
  • Nicaragua's capital Managua dumps its rubbish at La Chureca. Hundreds of people make a living here from recycling plastics and metals they recover. But making an income here requires long hours of hard physical labour and the risks include poisonous waste that is dumped by the maquila industry, sharps from hospitals and viscera from the butchery trade.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20110521_492.jpg
  • Nicaragua's capital Managua dumps its rubbish at La Chureca. Hundreds of people make a living here from recycling plastics and metals they recover. But making an income here requires long hours of hard physical labour and the risks include poisonous waste that is dumped by the maquila industry, sharps from hospitals and viscera from the butchery trade.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20110521_483.jpg
  • A young boy among the rubbish. Nicaragua's capital Managua dumps its rubbish at La Chureca. Hundreds of people make a living here from recycling plastics and metals they recover. But making an income here requires long hours of hard physical labour and the risks include poisonous waste that is dumped by the maquila industry, sharps from hospitals and viscera from the butchery trade.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20110521_514.jpg
  • Cindy Yohanna Ruíz and Isis Escarlet.<br />
<br />
Cindy (in blue):<br />
I’m a single mother with three children. I travelled, it’s a difficult journey, and you go with your heart in pieces, leaving your children behind, you don’t know if you are coming back, you go with your whole body but a lot of people come back missing an arm or a leg, there are several round here like that. And plenty of people die. But there’s no work here, there’s hunger, you can’t afford to send the kids to school. I’ve had one of my children sick, you can’t afford the medicine.<br />
<br />
Thank God, I’m back, in one piece, and thank God, the LWF has helped us get ahead. Now I have the sales, I can afford the rent on a small place, and send the kids to school, and pay for medicine.<br />
<br />
I left just out of poverty. We didn’t eat three meals a day, I didn’t have a place to live, I was sharing with my mother. <br />
<br />
I got up to Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico. I was travelling a month. I was deported back to Aguas Calientes, the border with Honduras and Guatemala. I went alone, without a smuggler, without more than 500 Lempiras. <br />
<br />
Isis (in pink):<br />
<br />
I went on my own too, no leaving my mother and kids behind, it’s painful to leave. <br />
<br />
Today, thanks to the LWF really, we’re making tortillas every day, morning and evening. And Saturdays we do chicken, roast chicken, we take it into town to sell, 50 Lempiras a portion, we do 30 portions. I make about 2,000 Lempiras a month with the tortillas. If you are humble, and I ask God for humility, and with hard work, you can survive.<br />
LWF's programme for deported and returned migrants is supported by ELCA.
    Honduras_Hawkey_migrants_20190121_57...jpg
  • Cindy Yohanna Ruíz and Isis Escarlet.<br />
<br />
Cindy (in blue):<br />
I’m a single mother with three children. I travelled, it’s a difficult journey, and you go with your heart in pieces, leaving your children behind, you don’t know if you are coming back, you go with your whole body but a lot of people come back missing an arm or a leg, there are several round here like that. And plenty of people die. But there’s no work here, there’s hunger, you can’t afford to send the kids to school. I’ve had one of my children sick, you can’t afford the medicine.<br />
<br />
Thank God, I’m back, in one piece, and thank God, the LWF has helped us get ahead. Now I have the sales, I can afford the rent on a small place, and send the kids to school, and pay for medicine.<br />
<br />
I left just out of poverty. We didn’t eat three meals a day, I didn’t have a place to live, I was sharing with my mother. <br />
<br />
I got up to Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico. I was travelling a month. I was deported back to Aguas Calientes, the border with Honduras and Guatemala. I went alone, without a smuggler, without more than 500 Lempiras. <br />
<br />
Isis (in pink):<br />
<br />
I went on my own too, no leaving my mother and kids behind, it’s painful to leave. <br />
<br />
Today, thanks to the LWF really, we’re making tortillas every day, morning and evening. And Saturdays we do chicken, roast chicken, we take it into town to sell, 50 Lempiras a portion, we do 30 portions. I make about 2,000 Lempiras a month with the tortillas. If you are humble, and I ask God for humility, and with hard work, you can survive.<br />
LWF's programme for deported and returned migrants is supported by ELCA.
    Honduras_Hawkey_migrants_20190121_57...jpg
  • Cindy Yohanna Ruíz and Isis Escarlet.<br />
<br />
Cindy (in blue):<br />
I’m a single mother with three children. I travelled, it’s a difficult journey, and you go with your heart in pieces, leaving your children behind, you don’t know if you are coming back, you go with your whole body but a lot of people come back missing an arm or a leg, there are several round here like that. And plenty of people die. But there’s no work here, there’s hunger, you can’t afford to send the kids to school. I’ve had one of my children sick, you can’t afford the medicine.<br />
<br />
Thank God, I’m back, in one piece, and thank God, the LWF has helped us get ahead. Now I have the sales, I can afford the rent on a small place, and send the kids to school, and pay for medicine.<br />
<br />
I left just out of poverty. We didn’t eat three meals a day, I didn’t have a place to live, I was sharing with my mother. <br />
<br />
I got up to Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico. I was travelling a month. I was deported back to Aguas Calientes, the border with Honduras and Guatemala. I went alone, without a smuggler, without more than 500 Lempiras. <br />
<br />
Isis (in pink):<br />
<br />
I went on my own too, no leaving my mother and kids behind, it’s painful to leave. <br />
<br />
Today, thanks to the LWF really, we’re making tortillas every day, morning and evening. And Saturdays we do chicken, roast chicken, we take it into town to sell, 50 Lempiras a portion, we do 30 portions. I make about 2,000 Lempiras a month with the tortillas. If you are humble, and I ask God for humility, and with hard work, you can survive.<br />
LWF's programme for deported and returned migrants is supported by ELCA.
    Honduras_Hawkey_migrants_20190121_56...jpg
  • 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
  • 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
  • Vultures stretch atop the rubbish as tyres burn. Nicaragua's capital Managua dumps its rubbish at La Chureca. Hundreds of people make a living here from recycling plastics and metals they recover. But making an income here requires long hours of hard physical labour and the risks include poisonous waste that is dumped by the maquila industry, sharps from hospitals and viscera from the butchery trade.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20110525_711.jpg
  • Nicaragua's capital Managua dumps its rubbish at La Chureca. Hundreds of people make a living here from recycling plastics and metals they recover. But making an income here requires long hours of hard physical labour and the risks include poisonous waste that is dumped by the maquila industry, sharps from hospitals and viscera from the butchery trade.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20110521_551.jpg
  • Nicaragua's capital Managua dumps its rubbish at La Chureca. Hundreds of people make a living here from recycling plastics and metals they recover. But making an income here requires long hours of hard physical labour and the risks include poisonous waste that is dumped by the maquila industry, sharps from hospitals and viscera from the butchery trade.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20110521_501.jpg
  • Suany Castillo, 35, San Pedro Sula<br />
<br />
"I used to work in textile factories, I was a machine operator, sewing on sleeves. Because my son got ill, I looked for help from a money lender. He lent me the money. Then he'd take all my salary, all of it. He charges 20% a week. I was earning 1,900 Lempiras, sometimes there'd be 80 Lempiras left over after paying the interest. I decided to resign from the job, because it wasn't enough to pay the interest and survive. They gave me 2,000 Lempiras, after working for years there, and I used it to start a small business making tortillas. But I'm a single mother, and the income wasn't enough to survive. When I heard about the caravan, I ran to join it. It was difficult, I was pregnant.<br />
<br />
We went up to Ocotepeque and from there through Guatemala and into Mexico. In Tuxtla we were in a little group, separated from the main group. We were walking for hours and then two trucks with men with balaclavas cut across us, they were armed. It was a place in the mountains, no houses. They wanted us to get onto the trucks. Someone said they were Zetas. Some people died, I ran with my children. I lost my kids for three days, I told them to run to Tecún Umán (the border). They opened fire on us while we ran, some people were killed. I won't get over it. I was raped and later I had a miscarriage, I was carrying twins. My kids got away. We were all covered in cuts and scratches, the thorns in our legs, we ran through the bushes and around the edges of fields. Three days later, I was desperate, I was searching for my kids, then in Tapachula I found my children, they were okay. I didn't know if they were alive. You don't know, I can't say what it was like, seeing them again. <br />
<br />
I turned myself in to the migration officials, I didn't want to carry on, they took us to the border. But, here I am again, alive, returning to live this poverty.<br />
<br />
CASM [a Mennonite organisation] has helped me, they've helped me a lot.<br />
<br />
The money lender wants the money, he wants
    Honduras_Hawkey_migrants_20190117_43...jpg
  • Sisal plants that line the edges of fields and roads send up spectacular seed heads. Sisal fibre is used for making sacks and rope.
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  • Manuel de Jesús Urquía Lazo<br />
Matamula, Marcala<br />
<br />
Mi esposa murió hace poco, hace siete meses. Le dió un derrame. <br />
<br />
Me dedico a hacer piedrín, a mano. Hay lugares donde lo hacen con maquina, lo hago yo a mano, manualmente. Lo vendo por metro, son 200 paladas en un metro y se vende en 200 Lempiras el metro. Es duro ganar ese dinero. Tengo 65 años. <br />
<br />
*********<br />
<br />
My wife died recently, seven months ago. She had a stroke.<br />
<br />
I work making gravel, by hand. There are places where they do it with machines, I do it by hand, manually. I sell it by the metre, there are 200 shovelfuls in a metre and it’s 200 Lempiras a metre. It’s hard to earn that money. I’m 65 years old.
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  • Matilde, a young Q'eqchi woman making tortillas. This is a routine at least once a day for every household.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Alta_Verapaz_201607...jpg
  • The Rt Rev. Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury: ìWhat we face at the moment is a number of interlocking global crisis elements. We are not faced with a choice between good causes. Environment, peace making and development are all together. We need to understand this interconnectedness. We need a basic shift in our attitude to growth in prosperity. The myth of prosperity is dangerous and will be murderous to humanity and creation. If we can tackle this basic attitude, we can face the questions at stake in Paris.î
    France_Hawkey_COP21_Hollande_2015064...jpg
  • The Rt Rev. Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury: ìWhat we face at the moment is a number of interlocking global crisis elements. We are not faced with a choice between good causes. Environment, peace making and development are all together. We need to understand this interconnectedness. We need a basic shift in our attitude to growth in prosperity. The myth of prosperity is dangerous and will be murderous to humanity and creation. If we can tackle this basic attitude, we can face the questions at stake in Paris.î
    France_Hawkey_COP21_Hollande_2015064...jpg
  • Francisca Ramírez cooking izote flowers on an ecological stove provided in a programme paid for with the fairtrade premium. The stove cooks a meal with a couple of small sticks, saving firewood, and making life easier for Francisca. Cooperativa Los Pinos is a certified Fairtrade producer based in El Salvador.
    el_salvador_hawkey_20120302_760.jpg
  • The chief of Seduya village, centre, sits outside his house. One of the chief's functions is the protocol of meeting visitors and making sure the appropriate hospitality and welcome is given. Hospitality has culture and religious importance, and though the village is poor, and muslim inhabitants are fasting for Ramadan, the chief ensures that visitors eat well and have a place to sleep.<br />
<br />
The small village of Seduya, Koinadugu is in a remote district of Kabala province, in northern Sierra Leone, an area heavily affected by the civil war in the 1990s. Working with partner Christian Extension Services, World Renew is helping the village with agricultural trainining to improve harvests and with sanitation and clean water supply.
    SierraLeone_Hawkey_WorldRenew_201706...jpg
  • mobile wetplate lab, for making wetplate collodion images. Inca Cola can be seen inside the main box, which is used for slowing down the development process
    Peru_Hawkey_SOTRAMI_mining_20140627_...jpg
  • mobile wetplate lab, for making wetplate collodion images. Inca Cola can be seen inside the main box, which is used for slowing down the development process
    Peru_hawkey_SOTRAMI_mine_20140622_12...jpg
  • Manuel de Jesús Urquía Lazo<br />
Matamula, Marcala<br />
<br />
Mi esposa murió hace poco, hace siete meses. Le dió un derrame. <br />
<br />
Me dedico a hacer piedrín, a mano. Hay lugares donde lo hacen con maquina, lo hago yo a mano, manualmente. Lo vendo por metro, son 200 paladas en un metro y se vende en 200 Lempiras el metro. Es duro ganar ese dinero. Tengo 65 años. <br />
<br />
*********<br />
<br />
My wife died recently, seven months ago. She had a stroke.<br />
<br />
I work making gravel, by hand. There are places where they do it with machines, I do it by hand, manually. I sell it by the metre, there are 200 shovelfuls in a metre and it’s 200 Lempiras a metre. It’s hard to earn that money. I’m 65 years old.
    Honduras_Hawkey_20180312_974.jpg
  • César Abraham Méndez Calix, 31, Jutiquiles<br />
<br />
We’ve seen people leaving Syria, going through France, thousands of them. We never thought we’d see thousands of people leaving Honduras at the same time. But, if you all go together, you don’t pay smugglers, and it’s safer.<br />
<br />
I lived in a really dangerous neighbourhood. Really dangerous. Lots of my friends were killed.<br />
<br />
The first three times I got up to Laredo.<br />
Then I went on the train, on top of the train, up to Mexicali.<br />
All in all, I went six times, I was deported five times.<br />
<br />
The last time, the people I was with got impatient, they tried to get across, they were deported. I got homesick, I decided to come back here, to eat beans.<br />
<br />
But, it’s hard here, economically. <br />
<br />
I was lucky to survive it, I saw someone killed in front of me, I was with this guy from Choluteca, we were tired, it was six in the morning, we hadn’t slept much, we were perched in between the train wagons, he slipped off and went straight under the wheels. God knows how many people have died on the journey, and plenty come back with limbs missing. Another time I saw someone reach out for a mango from an overhanging tree, the train will full, 60 people on each wagon, we were hungry, so he reached out, he slipped, he went between the wagons, landed on his teeth, he was dead straight away.<br />
<br />
One time I nearly died myself. I was travelling between Nayarit and Guadalajara. I was on the train and I touched a high-tension cable, it just brushed my face, burned me, two Mexicans stopped me from falling off, they grabbed my legs. I’ve never been closer to death. I have never got on a train again. <br />
<br />
Sometimes the Mexican throw stones at you while you’re on the train. <br />
<br />
I have done training with the LWF, I am making a living painting, painting houses and businesses, and doing signwriting and tattoos.<br />
<br />
LWF’s program for returned and deported migrants is supported by ELCA.
    Honduras_Hawkey_migrants_20190122_58...jpg
  • Cindy Cruz Flores, 24. Tenpiscapa, Olancho.<br />
<br />
I was deported.<br />
<br />
I went because I couldn’t find any work, there’s nothing here. I’m single, I live at home, I have no children, but I have to help my parents. Even with a profession here, there’s no employment. Lots of people from round here decide to migrate, to find a better future. <br />
<br />
Maybe it’s not as bad here as in some other areas, not many people are hungry, no one dies of hunger here. But, there’s scarcity, there are families who don’t get to eat three times a day. In Honduras the violence is terrible, generally. Catacamas is tough, it’s dangerous. Our particular neighbourhood isn’t too bad though.<br />
<br />
My brother is in the US, he sent money for me to try to get there. He paid $3500, that’s gone.<br />
<br />
I got to Houston, through Juarez, by the bridge. I was there for three months, detained. It was difficult there. I was punished, they sent me from place to place, the food was terrible, you don’t even see sunlight, you don’t know what time of the day it is. The ice boxes are the worst, you freeze. I couldn’t bear it. I signed the papers to be deported. There are lots of stories of people who take their own lives. It’s a bad feeling, terrible feeling there. <br />
<br />
Among the staff in the detention centres, there are bad people, they enjoy making you suffer.<br />
<br />
I was lucky on the journey, it wasn’t much suffering, but in detention it was bad. Some of the women I was with suffered a lot more on the journey, some had broken arms and legs, one had her face all disfigured, another was all cut and grazed, accidents on the train or getting over the wall, or traffic accidents. <br />
<br />
Women travelling have extra risks. A lot of women are raped, or killed. <br />
<br />
I did a course with the LWF, three months training, cutting hair and beauty salon work. I’ve learned to be less shy. I’m working in a salon now, cutting hair. I like doing that. I think in the future, God willing, and with the support of the LWF, I’ll set up m
    Honduras_Hawkey_migrants_20190122_46...jpg
  • Yelin Javier Matute Ramos, 22. (with Ruth Abigael, his girlfriend)<br />
<br />
My father went with a smuggler to the US, but they had a fight.  My cousin was with them, he told us the story afterwards. They were in a cabin, but they left my dad outside. The smuggler tried to kill him by beating him, but he wouldn’t die, so he found a machete, cut his hand off, and killed him. Then he tied him to the back of a car and dragged his body around on the dirt road and dumped his body on the railway, so that they’d think he was killed by the train. His wife had to identify him, he was unrecognisable. They sent his body back. <br />
<br />
Despite that, I decided to try my own luck and migrate.<br />
<br />
My mother is in the US, I haven’t seen her for 12 years. <br />
<br />
I decided to go last year. <br />
<br />
A cartel stopped the lorry we were travelling in, they got us all out of the trailer. They told us all to get out all our money, or that they’d kill us. They put all the women separately.<br />
<br />
They killed the driver of the lorry, and his assistant. They asked the lorry driver how many people he was carrying, he said 40, they told him to count us, there were 125 of us. They cut four fingers off his hand, one by one, and then they put a knife into his throat. I didn’t want to see it, but they did it in front of us. Then they did the same to his assistant, they cut off four fingers and pushed a knife into his throat. <br />
<br />
They left us there on the side of the road. We were picked up by Mexican migration and seven days later we were back in Honduras. Everyone I went with went straight back, but I decided to stay. They’ve all got through to the US.<br />
<br />
We got a bus fare to get back to Olancho, we got back with nothing.<br />
Someone told me about the LWF programme and I decided to learn welding, I have those skills now, for life, no one can take that from me. And I’m working in buildings, making furniture, and I have my own equipment.<br />
<br />
LWF's programme for deported and returned migrants is supported by ELCA.
    Honduras_Hawkey_migrants_20190122_40...jpg
  • Consuelo, a Pech indian, making breakfast in Subirana village, Dulce Nombre de Culmí, Olancho, Honduras.
    honduras_hawkey_20170814_388.jpg
  • Erika Cáceres Díaz, with her daughter Madeline: I work making stickers and signs. A lot of our work comes from the transport sector, buses and taxis mainly. We also do signs for offices, emergency exits and so on, but we get less business from that, it’s mainly transport, public and private. God has given me a talent for this, I thank God for it. And we’ve done trainings, for how to run a business, and I’ve learned other things on YouTube too. When we started, we didn’t know how to use the computer, we hadn’t been able to study much at school, so we had to learn a lot. I’ve done distance study at the university now too, in graphic design. World Renew, through Christian Ministries, has given us economic support too, credit to buy the computer and materials, as well as the trainings. Training on how to run a business and control costs, and know how far down you can go with pricing, that’s been important, it’s a competitive business, and prices are changing, we’re buying products that come into the country, so we’re paying dollars but earning lempiras, you need to understand what you are doing.
    Honduras_Hawkey_WorldRenew_NuevaSuya...jpg
  • Robin Vásquez, deported from the US back to Honduras, has no land to farm, without land he is just a farm labourer, and he says that making the adjustment from having a nice house and well-paid employment in the US, to being a landless day-labourer in Honduras is drastic and difficult.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Fairtrade_20190217_5...jpg
  • Robin Vásquez, deported from the US back to Honduras, has no land to farm, without land he is just a farm labourer, and he says that making the adjustment from having a nice house and well-paid employment in the US, to being a landless day-labourer in Honduras is drastic and difficult.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Fairtrade_20190217_4...jpg
  • A young woman leaves the mill after grinding her cooked corn into a dough for making tortillas. This is a routine at least once a day for every household. at least once a day for every household.
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  • Julia cooling off at the kitchen door after making tortillas. The temperature in Concepción Actelá is often around 40 celcius.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Alta_Verapaz_201607...jpg
  • Alexander Contreras is one of the Andes Coop's coffee cuppers. He is the son of a coop member and coffee farmer and has studied and trained for the job over a period of years. A good cupper is essential for rooting out any defects in coffee and for identifying special coffees with valuable profiles, making sure that the maximum value for the coffee is reached, and that buyers are never disappointed. Alexander works in the four tasting laboratories that the coop has in Antioquia.<br />
<br />
Here Alexander is testing the fragrance of the ground coffee.<br />
<br />
Speciality coffee and coffees with a prized cupping profile can reach much higher prices. Coffee with defects reaches a lower price, often on the national market only.
    Colombia_Hawkey_FT_Antioquia_2017090...jpg
  • Alexander Contreras is one of the Andes Coop's coffee cuppers. He is the son of a coop member and coffee farmer and has studied and trained for the job over a period of years. A good cupper is essential for rooting out any defects in coffee and for identifying special coffees with valuable profiles, making sure that the maximum value for the coffee is reached, and that buyers are never disappointed. Alexander works in the four tasting laboratories that the coop has in Antioquia.<br />
<br />
Here Alexander is testing the fragrance of the ground coffee.<br />
<br />
Speciality coffee and coffees with a prized cupping profile can reach much higher prices. Coffee with defects reaches a lower price, often on the national market only.
    Colombia_Hawkey_FT_Antioquia_2017090...jpg
  • Alexander Contreras is one of the Andes Coop's coffee cuppers. He is the son of a coop member and coffee farmer and has studied and trained for the job over a period of years. A good cupper is essential for rooting out any defects in coffee and for identifying special coffees with valuable profiles, making sure that the maximum value for the coffee is reached, and that buyers are never disappointed. Alexander works in the four tasting laboratories that the coop has in Antioquia.<br />
<br />
Here Alexander is testing the fragrance of the ground coffee.<br />
<br />
Speciality coffee and coffees with a prized cupping profile can reach much higher prices. Coffee with defects reaches a lower price, often on the national market only.
    Colombia_Hawkey_FT_Antioquia_2017090...jpg
  • Alexander Contreras is one of the Andes Coop's coffee cuppers. He is the son of a coop member and coffee farmer and has studied and trained for the job over a period of years. A good cupper is essential for rooting out any defects in coffee and for identifying special coffees with valuable profiles, making sure that the maximum value for the coffee is reached, and that buyers are never disappointed. Alexander works in the four tasting laboratories that the coop has in Antioquia.<br />
<br />
Here Alexander is testing the fragrance of the ground coffee.<br />
<br />
Speciality coffee and coffees with a prized cupping profile can reach much higher prices. Coffee with defects reaches a lower price, often on the national market only.
    Colombia_Hawkey_FT_Antioquia_2017090...jpg
  • Alexander Contreras is one of the Andes Coop's coffee cuppers. He is the son of a coop member and coffee farmer and has studied and trained for the job over a period of years. A good cupper is essential for rooting out any defects in coffee and for identifying special coffees with valuable profiles, making sure that the maximum value for the coffee is reached, and that buyers are never disappointed. Alexander works in the four tasting laboratories that the coop has in Antioquia.<br />
<br />
Here Alexander is testing the fragrance of the ground coffee.<br />
<br />
Speciality coffee and coffees with a prized cupping profile can reach much higher prices. Coffee with defects reaches a lower price, often on the national market only.
    Colombia_Hawkey_FT_Antioquia_2017090...jpg
  • Alexander Contreras is one of the Andes Coop's coffee cuppers. He is the son of a coop member and coffee farmer and has studied and trained for the job over a period of years. A good cupper is essential for rooting out any defects in coffee and for identifying special coffees with valuable profiles, making sure that the maximum value for the coffee is reached, and that buyers are never disappointed. Alexander works in the four tasting laboratories that the coop has in Antioquia.<br />
<br />
Here Alexander is testing the fragrance of the ground coffee.<br />
<br />
Speciality coffee and coffees with a prized cupping profile can reach much higher prices. Coffee with defects reaches a lower price, often on the national market only.
    Colombia_Hawkey_FT_Antioquia_2017090...jpg
  • Alexander Contreras is one of the Andes Coop's coffee cuppers. He is the son of a coop member and coffee farmer and has studied and trained for the job over a period of years. A good cupper is essential for rooting out any defects in coffee and for identifying special coffees with valuable profiles, making sure that the maximum value for the coffee is reached, and that buyers are never disappointed. Alexander works in the four tasting laboratories that the coop has in Antioquia.<br />
<br />
Here Alexander is testing the fragrance of the ground coffee.<br />
<br />
Speciality coffee and coffees with a prized cupping profile can reach much higher prices. Coffee with defects reaches a lower price, often on the national market only.
    Colombia_Hawkey_FT_Antioquia_2017090...jpg
  • Alexander Contreras is one of the Andes Coop's coffee cuppers. He is the son of a coop member and coffee farmer and has studied and trained for the job over a period of years. A good cupper is essential for rooting out any defects in coffee and for identifying special coffees with valuable profiles, making sure that the maximum value for the coffee is reached, and that buyers are never disappointed. Alexander works in the four tasting laboratories that the coop has in Antioquia.
    Colombia_Hawkey_FT_Antioquia_2017090...jpg
  • Manuel de Jesús Urquía Lazo<br />
Matamula, Marcala<br />
<br />
Mi esposa murió hace poco, hace siete meses. Le dió un derrame. <br />
<br />
Me dedico a hacer piedrín, a mano. Hay lugares donde lo hacen con maquina, lo hago yo a mano, manualmente. Lo vendo por metro, son 200 paladas en un metro y se vende en 200 Lempiras el metro. Es duro ganar ese dinero. Tengo 65 años. <br />
<br />
*********<br />
<br />
My wife died recently, seven months ago. She had a stroke.<br />
<br />
I work making gravel, by hand. There are places where they do it with machines, I do it by hand, manually. I sell it by the metre, there are 200 shovelfuls in a metre and it’s 200 Lempiras a metre. It’s hard to earn that money. I’m 65 years old.
    Honduras_Hawkey_20180312_944.jpg
  • César Abraham Méndez Calix, 31, Jutiquiles<br />
<br />
We’ve seen people leaving Syria, going through France, thousands of them. We never thought we’d see thousands of people leaving Honduras at the same time. But, if you all go together, you don’t pay smugglers, and it’s safer.<br />
<br />
I lived in a really dangerous neighbourhood. Really dangerous. Lots of my friends were killed.<br />
<br />
The first three times I got up to Laredo.<br />
Then I went on the train, on top of the train, up to Mexicali.<br />
All in all, I went six times, I was deported five times.<br />
<br />
The last time, the people I was with got impatient, they tried to get across, they were deported. I got homesick, I decided to come back here, to eat beans.<br />
<br />
But, it’s hard here, economically. <br />
<br />
I was lucky to survive it, I saw someone killed in front of me, I was with this guy from Choluteca, we were tired, it was six in the morning, we hadn’t slept much, we were perched in between the train wagons, he slipped off and went straight under the wheels. God knows how many people have died on the journey, and plenty come back with limbs missing. Another time I saw someone reach out for a mango from an overhanging tree, the train will full, 60 people on each wagon, we were hungry, so he reached out, he slipped, he went between the wagons, landed on his teeth, he was dead straight away.<br />
<br />
One time I nearly died myself. I was travelling between Nayarit and Guadalajara. I was on the train and I touched a high-tension cable, it just brushed my face, burned me, two Mexicans stopped me from falling off, they grabbed my legs. I’ve never been closer to death. I have never got on a train again. <br />
<br />
Sometimes the Mexican throw stones at you while you’re on the train. <br />
<br />
I have done training with the LWF, I am making a living painting, painting houses and businesses, and doing signwriting and tattoos.<br />
<br />
LWF’s program for returned and deported migrants is supported by ELCA.
    Honduras_Hawkey_migrants_20190122_59...jpg
  • Yelin Javier Matute Ramos, 22. (with Ruth Abigael, his girlfriend)<br />
<br />
My father went with a smuggler to the US, but they had a fight.  My cousin was with them, he told us the story afterwards. They were in a cabin, but they left my dad outside. The smuggler tried to kill him by beating him, but he wouldn’t die, so he found a machete, cut his hand off, and killed him. Then he tied him to the back of a car and dragged his body around on the dirt road and dumped his body on the railway, so that they’d think he was killed by the train. His wife had to identify him, he was unrecognisable. They sent his body back. <br />
<br />
Despite that, I decided to try my own luck and migrate.<br />
<br />
My mother is in the US, I haven’t seen her for 12 years. <br />
<br />
I decided to go last year. <br />
<br />
A cartel stopped the lorry we were travelling in, they got us all out of the trailer. They told us all to get out all our money, or that they’d kill us. They put all the women separately.<br />
<br />
They killed the driver of the lorry, and his assistant. They asked the lorry driver how many people he was carrying, he said 40, they told him to count us, there were 125 of us. They cut four fingers off his hand, one by one, and then they put a knife into his throat. I didn’t want to see it, but they did it in front of us. Then they did the same to his assistant, they cut off four fingers and pushed a knife into his throat. <br />
<br />
They left us there on the side of the road. We were picked up by Mexican migration and seven days later we were back in Honduras. Everyone I went with went straight back, but I decided to stay. They’ve all got through to the US.<br />
<br />
We got a bus fare to get back to Olancho, we got back with nothing.<br />
Someone told me about the LWF programme and I decided to learn welding, I have those skills now, for life, no one can take that from me. And I’m working in buildings, making furniture, and I have my own equipment.<br />
<br />
LWF's programme for deported and returned migrants is supported by ELCA.
    Honduras_Hawkey_migrants_20190122_41...jpg
  • Erika Cáceres Díaz, with her daughter Madeline: I work making stickers and signs. A lot of our work comes from the transport sector, buses and taxis mainly. We also do signs for offices, emergency exits and so on, but we get less business from that, it’s mainly transport, public and private. God has given me a talent for this, I thank God for it. And we’ve done trainings, for how to run a business, and I’ve learned other things on YouTube too. When we started, we didn’t know how to use the computer, we hadn’t been able to study much at school, so we had to learn a lot. I’ve done distance study at the university now too, in graphic design. World Renew, through Christian Ministries, has given us economic support too, credit to buy the computer and materials, as well as the trainings. Training on how to run a business and control costs, and know how far down you can go with pricing, that’s been important, it’s a competitive business, and prices are changing, we’re buying products that come into the country, so we’re paying dollars but earning lempiras, you need to understand what you are doing.
    Honduras_Hawkey_WorldRenew_NuevaSuya...jpg
  • The Rt Rev. Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury: ìWhat we face at the moment is a number of interlocking global crisis elements. We are not faced with a choice between good causes. Environment, peace making and development are all together. We need to understand this interconnectedness. We need a basic shift in our attitude to growth in prosperity. The myth of prosperity is dangerous and will be murderous to humanity and creation. If we can tackle this basic attitude, we can face the questions at stake in Paris.î
    France_Hawkey_COP21_Hollande_2015076...jpg
  • Alexander Contreras is one of the Andes Coop's coffee cuppers. He is the son of a coop member and coffee farmer and has studied and trained for the job over a period of years. A good cupper is essential for rooting out any defects in coffee and for identifying special coffees with valuable profiles, making sure that the maximum value for the coffee is reached, and that buyers are never disappointed. Alexander works in the four tasting laboratories that the coop has in Antioquia.<br />
<br />
Here Alexander is testing the fragrance of the ground coffee.<br />
<br />
Speciality coffee and coffees with a prized cupping profile can reach much higher prices. Coffee with defects reaches a lower price, often on the national market only.
    Colombia_Hawkey_FT_Antioquia_2017090...jpg
  • Alexander Contreras is one of the Andes Coop's coffee cuppers. He is the son of a coop member and coffee farmer and has studied and trained for the job over a period of years. A good cupper is essential for rooting out any defects in coffee and for identifying special coffees with valuable profiles, making sure that the maximum value for the coffee is reached, and that buyers are never disappointed. Alexander works in the four tasting laboratories that the coop has in Antioquia.
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  • Jairo Restrepo says he’s 110 years old, he laughs loudly, in fact, he has to calculate it, he’s 58. Recently, a mule fell on top of him. He was loading the mule with sacks of coffee from his farm, when the mule slipped on the steep incline of the mountain and got stuck on top of him with its legs in the air. “It could have killed me, but it gave me a hernia. It’s serious, Ave Maria! the pain is terrible.” He’s waiting for an operation to fix it. With the Fairtrade Premium the Andes Coop now makes regular contributions to the BEPS pension system for him, and additionally, when he sells coffee, the coop makes further contributions of 3% of the sales. “It’s better like this, when I sell the coffee, to make my contribution then, because I can’t make monthly contributions, my income is not monthly, it’s just when I get a harvest”. Aging coffee farmers, until now, have had poor health care, and no pension to look forward to. This is hard on the farmers, hard on their families, and it makes farming unattractive for young farmers. Coop administrators talk in worried terms about problems of 'generational takeover’ as young people abandon farming in large numbers. The BEPS system gives farmers better access to health care, such as hernia operations, and will provide a bi-monthly income to retired farmers. Don Jairo reflects: “man, coffee farming is tough. Sometimes I’m completely skint, sometimes we have long spells when we don’t eat three times a day, we don’t eat properly. Sometimes my clothes are torn, and my clothes stay torn, I can’t even afford a second-hand shirt. And, I tell you, I’ve worked like a bull all my life, I’ve had no Sundays, no bank holidays, no holidays. I have to go up the mountain, every day, that’s what I’ve had to do, that’s what I’ve got to do now, hacking a living out of the mountain. And what have I got now?” he laughs “a hernia!”. “What can I tell you, a pension makes a big difference for us, i
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  • Jairo Restrepo says he’s 110 years old, he laughs loudly, in fact, he has to calculate it, he’s 58. Recently, a mule fell on top of him. He was loading the mule with sacks of coffee from his farm, when the mule slipped on the steep incline of the mountain and got stuck on top of him with its legs in the air. “It could have killed me, but it gave me a hernia. It’s serious, Ave Maria! the pain is terrible.” He’s waiting for an operation to fix it. With the Fairtrade Premium the Andes Coop now makes regular contributions to the BEPS pension system for him, and additionally, when he sells coffee, the coop makes further contributions of 3% of the sales. “It’s better like this, when I sell the coffee, to make my contribution then, because I can’t make monthly contributions, my income is not monthly, it’s just when I get a harvest”. Aging coffee farmers, until now, have had poor health care, and no pension to look forward to. This is hard on the farmers, hard on their families, and it makes farming unattractive for young farmers. Coop administrators talk in worried terms about problems of 'generational takeover’ as young people abandon farming in large numbers. The BEPS system gives farmers better access to health care, such as hernia operations, and will provide a bi-monthly income to retired farmers. Don Jairo reflects: “man, coffee farming is tough. Sometimes I’m completely skint, sometimes we have long spells when we don’t eat three times a day, we don’t eat properly. Sometimes my clothes are torn, and my clothes stay torn, I can’t even afford a second-hand shirt. And, I tell you, I’ve worked like a bull all my life, I’ve had no Sundays, no bank holidays, no holidays. I have to go up the mountain, every day, that’s what I’ve had to do, that’s what I’ve got to do now, hacking a living out of the mountain. And what have I got now?” he laughs “a hernia!”. “What can I tell you, a pension makes a big difference for us, i
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  • Jairo Restrepo says he’s 110 years old, he laughs loudly, in fact, he has to calculate it, he’s 58. Recently, a mule fell on top of him. He was loading the mule with sacks of coffee from his farm, when the mule slipped on the steep incline of the mountain and got stuck on top of him with its legs in the air. “It could have killed me, but it gave me a hernia. It’s serious, Ave Maria! the pain is terrible.” He’s waiting for an operation to fix it. With the Fairtrade Premium the Andes Coop now makes regular contributions to the BEPS pension system for him, and additionally, when he sells coffee, the coop makes further contributions of 3% of the sales. “It’s better like this, when I sell the coffee, to make my contribution then, because I can’t make monthly contributions, my income is not monthly, it’s just when I get a harvest”. Aging coffee farmers, until now, have had poor health care, and no pension to look forward to. This is hard on the farmers, hard on their families, and it makes farming unattractive for young farmers. Coop administrators talk in worried terms about problems of 'generational takeover’ as young people abandon farming in large numbers. The BEPS system gives farmers better access to health care, such as hernia operations, and will provide a bi-monthly income to retired farmers. Don Jairo reflects: “man, coffee farming is tough. Sometimes I’m completely skint, sometimes we have long spells when we don’t eat three times a day, we don’t eat properly. Sometimes my clothes are torn, and my clothes stay torn, I can’t even afford a second-hand shirt. And, I tell you, I’ve worked like a bull all my life, I’ve had no Sundays, no bank holidays, no holidays. I have to go up the mountain, every day, that’s what I’ve had to do, that’s what I’ve got to do now, hacking a living out of the mountain. And what have I got now?” he laughs “a hernia!”. “What can I tell you, a pension makes a big difference for us, i
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  • Father Martin Newell, Passionist priest<br />
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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".
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  • "My name is Joe Ware, I'm the Church and Campaigns journalist at Christian Aid based in London.  Weíre all here to get the world on track to a low-carbon planet, one that will tackle climate change and its effects. Itís not just about bringing down emissions, itís also about dealing with the effects that weíve already created, and helping those communities that are suffering the consequences. After 21 attempts, weíre finally at a big meeting where weíre hopeful we are going to get an actual deal which will put us on that pathway. The most important thing is a political signal to the world that this is the direction we are going in. Itís already happening outside of this conference with investors and businesses and all sorts of exciting developments and weíre here to make sure that the politicians and the governments can actually get it written down on paper and make that signal concrete for the world to see. <br />
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Christian Aid is an anti-poverty charity that looks at the cause of poverty, climate change is a cause that we work on and weíre passionate about seeing it get fixed. Weíre fortunate enough to have some very well qualified policy and advocacy staff working with us, and they engage in the process. We believe in tackling the structural causes of poverty. If we can get a good deal, it will make the lives of poor people better around the world."
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  • "My name is Joe Ware, I'm the Church and Campaigns journalist at Christian Aid based in London.  Weíre all here to get the world on track to a low-carbon planet, one that will tackle climate change and its effects. Itís not just about bringing down emissions, itís also about dealing with the effects that weíve already created, and helping those communities that are suffering the consequences. After 21 attempts, weíre finally at a big meeting where weíre hopeful we are going to get an actual deal which will put us on that pathway. The most important thing is a political signal to the world that this is the direction we are going in. Itís already happening outside of this conference with investors and businesses and all sorts of exciting developments and weíre here to make sure that the politicians and the governments can actually get it written down on paper and make that signal concrete for the world to see. <br />
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Christian Aid is an anti-poverty charity that looks at the cause of poverty, climate change is a cause that we work on and weíre passionate about seeing it get fixed. Weíre fortunate enough to have some very well qualified policy and advocacy staff working with us, and they engage in the process. We believe in tackling the structural causes of poverty. If we can get a good deal, it will make the lives of poor people better around the world."
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  • Luis López Traña, Los Chilamates, El Gigante. “In the last couple of years, we’ve planted fruit trees, bananas and plantains, we’ve learned to make reservoirs to store rain water, we’ve learned to make organic compost for fertiliser, and we’ve learned about foliar sprays, that’s how to fertilise a plant by spraying the leaves, we’ve had quite a few workshops, and it helps us to use what we have on the farm, to economise, to save money, for example we can make insect repellents, to prevent plant disease, we can control disease, we’ve learned how to do that. That’s why I think this program is excellent. We are looking for local strategies, to resolve our problems, confront the problems we’re getting from climate change across the country. We’ve already had benefits from this project and we want to carry on, we are enthusiastic about it”.
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  • Marco Rosalio Duarte laughs "Get that horse out of my picture!" <br />
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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 />
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The village has 850 inhabitants, almost all of them are indigenous Pech. There are only 6,000 Pech people. <br />
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"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 />
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"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 />
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"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 />
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"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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  • John Clements, a lay preacher from Oxford, is responsible for the Walk of Witness and prayer services in Oxford. He's involved with Christian Climate Action. "I think Christians need to be involved in action that has to happen to stop the climate crisis. Christians should all be worried about the destruction of God's creation, we need to be good stewards. I have been willing to be arrested. We need to be willing to make sacrifices to make the point, to bring the message home. We all need to work to unite all churches, to commit to deal more actively with the climate change crisis."
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  • Many of the protestors have done non-violent training and have taken a decision that they are willing to be arrested to make a point, to draw people's attention to the global climate crisis, to emphasise that something has to be done urgently.<br />
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The 'arrestables', the hundreds and hundreds who have pledged willingness to be arrested, write legal assistance numbers on themselves, so that they can't be taken from them, and when they get a chance to make a phone call from jail, that's who they call.
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  • 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 />
<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."
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  • Sugar snap peas are irrigated in neat rows by drip-feed tubes. Cooperativa Las Canoas is a Fairtrade-certified vegetable producer in San Miguel Las Canoas, Sololá, Guatemala. Some 90 indigenous Kaqchikel farmers make up the coop.Cooperativa Las Canoas is a Fairtrade-certified vegetable producer in San Miguel Las Canoas, Sololá, Guatemala. Some 90 indigenous Kaqchikel farmers make up the coop.
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  • My name is Olav Fykse Tveit, I'm the general secretary of the World Council of Chruches. COP21, this huge event, is gathering the countries of the world, and it is also gathering the peoples of the world. We are here as the World Council of Churches believing in God but also believing that change is possible. I see signs of hope, one is that there is now a common understanding of the problem, that we have to do something, and it has to happen now. Willingness to act is what has to be shown here. We are here to support these efforts and accept that we have to work together, politicians, civil society, people in the business and finance sectors, anyone with the ability to make a difference, we have have to pull together and make this happen now.
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  • "I am Ngassani William Magesse, I work with the Christian Council of Tanzania as a programme officer responsible for climate change, environment and food security, we are part of the ACT Alliance. We do expect that the final agreement from Paris to be positive, but as many brackets are still in the document, we donít know what actually will come out of COP21. We hope that the developed world will do much better to make the earth a better place to live. We need to make sure that they reduce their carbon emissions."
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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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  • René Bermúdez has been taught by the CIEETS program supported by CWS to farm Melipona bees, a stingless bee that produces medicinal honey. This variety is called Star Bee because of the shape it make at the opening of the hive.
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  • Rosa Lilian Peña and Raymundo Calderón<br />
El Mojón, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua<br />
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Raymundo says: “we are working with Melipona. Melipona is a small bee that doesn’t have a sting, it produces special honey that’s medicinal, it’s very good for your eyes and your heart. Melipona doesn’t produce much honey, compared to the bees with stings, but it’s special honey, and we can sell it. I’ve had 11 hives, but we’ve been affected by a disease so I’ve only got six right now. The CIEETS team has taught us all about it. I’ve also had three pigs, through the project. I was given 25 chicks, and we were taught how to manage poultry, now I have 200 chickens. I have planted about 500 trees, coconut, mandarin, lemon, orange, papaya, grenadine, passion fruit, bananas, plantains, lots of yuca, and more.” <br />
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Rosa Lilian says: “Thank God, we’ve had this project with CIEETS, we got the chicks, the team taught us about poultry management, and we’ve been selling the chicken, it’s helped us a lot economically, we’ve been able to help our children and pay for their education. Our eldest son is beginning to study medicine at university, we’re paying for that with the profit we make from the chickens.”
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  • Rosa Lilian Peña and Raymundo Calderón<br />
El Mojón, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua<br />
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Raymundo says: “we are working with Melipona. Melipona is a small bee that doesn’t have a sting, it produces special honey that’s medicinal, it’s very good for your eyes and your heart. Melipona doesn’t produce much honey, compared to the bees with stings, but it’s special honey, and we can sell it. I’ve had 11 hives, but we’ve been affected by a disease so I’ve only got six right now. The CIEETS team has taught us all about it. I’ve also had three pigs, through the project. I was given 25 chicks, and we were taught how to manage poultry, now I have 200 chickens. I have planted about 500 trees, coconut, mandarin, lemon, orange, papaya, grenadine, passion fruit, bananas, plantains, lots of yuca, and more.” <br />
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Rosa Lilian says: “Thank God, we’ve had this project with CIEETS, we got the chicks, the team taught us about poultry management, and we’ve been selling the chicken, it’s helped us a lot economically, we’ve been able to help our children and pay for their education. Our eldest son is beginning to study medicine at university, we’re paying for that with the profit we make from the chickens.”
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  • Poreh Mansaray, centre, with her husband and son working on their peanut field. World Renew partner Christian Extension services has been helping the Mansaray family learn new farming techniques to improve their crops and make their farming more productive.<br />
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The small village of Yirafilaia, Koinadugu is in a remote district of Kabala province, in northern Sierra Leone, an area heavily affected by the civil war in the 1990s. Working with partner Christian Extension Services, World Renew is helping the village with agricultural trainining to improve harvests and with sanitation and clean water supply.,
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  • Poreh Mansaray, left, with some of her children, taking shade on a lean-to structure on the land they farm. World Renew partner Christian Extension services has been helping the Mansaray family learn new farming techniques to improve their crops and make their farming more productive.<br />
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The small village of Yirafilaia, Koinadugu is in a remote district of Kabala province, in northern Sierra Leone, an area heavily affected by the civil war in the 1990s. Working with partner Christian Extension Services, World Renew is helping the village with agricultural trainining to improve harvests and with sanitation and clean water supply.
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