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  • M'Mah Sylla, the younger, part of the Sylla household, took part in the WHO-led Ebola vaccine trial in 2015.
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  • Cristobal Coc, indigenous Q'eqchi farmer and part of a World Renew programme in Guatemala, stands in a corn field in Concepción Actelá, Alta Verapaz. Drought linked to climate change has severely affected the crops in this area over the last seven years.
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  • The whole family help out at harvest time in Léogane, Haiti.
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  • Anibal Molina, coffee producer for COAQUIL cooperative in Quiragüira, Intibucá, Honduras. Anibal migrated to the US for 12 years and worked in the catering industry. Despite difficulties he returned to Honduras to farm coffee, and is a Fairtrade-certified producer.
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  • Fany Pastora Pineda, 24, picking coffee at a COMISAJUL farm. In this area of Honduras the hillsides are particularly steep and are located at around 1600 metres above sea level. COMISAJUL, Cooperativa Mixta San Juancito Ltda, is a Fairtrade-certified coffee cooperative based in San Juancito, Francisco Morazan, Honduras.
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  • Sekou Minkailou, (centre) chief of Matam district in Conakry, worked closely with the team from WHO to convince his people to participate in the Ebola vaccine trial. In Matam district, 10 people, including a doctor, had already died during the outbreak and people were frightened of this new disease that they had never seen before in their country.<br />
“People were so scared, they refused to follow the advice from the government and health workers. They didn’t even want the Red Cross to be involved. They hid the bodies of people who died from Ebola because there was such horrible stigma attached to the family once it was touched by Ebola.”<br />
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Minkailou and his colleagues in the district office were often the first people to have contact with families when a new Ebola case was announced. “We feel really happy, so relieved that this vaccine protects us,” he said.
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  • Paulina Rosales of the group Caja Lúdica that promotes projects of art and culture and formation of young people. Caja Lúdica is supported by the Lutheran World Federation.
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  • in Las Flores, Jocotán, Guatemala, a Maya-Chortí farmer rests against an adobe wall. This part of the country is highly affected by climate change. Rainfall patterns in the last seven years have been unreliable, with too little or too irregular rainfall to get harvest of corn and beans. Many farmers have lost the seeds they plant. As the drought seems unending, the farmers diversify their income searching for employment as day labourers, travelling often for months at a time.
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  • A boy at the school  in Las Flores, Jocotán, Guatemala, a Maya Chortí territory. This part of the country is highly affected by climate change. Rainfall patterns in the last seven years have been unreliable, with too little or too irregular rainfall to get harvest of corn and beans. Many farmers have lost the seeds they plant. As the drought seems unending, the farmers diversify their income searching for employment as day labourers, travelling often for months at a time.
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  • At home in a Q'eqchi house in Concepción Actelá, Alta Verapaz.
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  • Cristobal Coc, on his demonstration plot.  He has planted papaya, beans, medicinal plants, plantain, coffee, gandule beans and cane for building.
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  • Guy Louis, President of local development group in Léogane FOTADEL, a strong World Renew partner in Haiti.
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  • Jean Felix Delice helped set up a local development organisation for farmers in the mountains of Léogane, Haiti. His group then joined with another 16 organisations in FOTADEL one of World Renew's strongest partners in Haiti. Jean Felix's organisation, with support from World Renew, works on improving how farmers deal with persistent lack of rain and the impact of drought, and has worked on humanitarian relief and emergency programs to re-establish agricultural production when seeds are lost in failed crops.<br />
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Here Jean Felix stands at a water tank, built with support of World Renew, that is used to harvest rainwater during the rainy season for use in the dry season.
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  • A stallholder in the Intibucá martket. Berta Cáceres campaigned and organised communities in Intibucá and other areas of Honduras to defend indigenous rights and territories before her assassination.
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  • An indigenous Maya Chortí man during the occupation of land to secure some farmland for the indigenous people.
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  • Two Maya Chortí sisters in the Copán region of Honduras
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Anibal Molina, coffee producer for COAQUIL cooperative in Quiragüira, Intibucá, Honduras. Anibal migrated to the US for 12 years and worked in the catering industry. Despite difficulties he returned to Honduras to farm coffee, and is a Fairtrade-certified producer.
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  • Felix Roberto Rivera, adminstrador at COMISAJUL stands at an oxidation lagoon, for the environmenally-safe processing of the acidic liquor that is generated by coffee pulp. Fairtrade rules stipulate that these waste products need to be adequately processed. COMISAJUL, Cooperativa Mixta San Juancito Ltda, is a Fairtrade-certified coffee cooperative based in San Juancito, Francisco Morazan, Honduras.
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  • M'Mah Sylla, the younger, part of the Sylla household, took part in the WHO-led Ebola vaccine trial in 2015.
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  • The drill for destroying the Ebola virus where medical staff come in contact with confirmed cases is strict routine, one small mistake and the infection can be passed on. Staff in PPE, are often close to being overcome by the heat and dehydration, and sometimes need to be shouted instructions like "raise your head up" as each part of the drill is gone through, a series of specific movements as they are sprayed with a bleach solution and each part of the protective clothing is peeled off in the right order and in the right direction, and put straight in the incineration bucket, even the ground where they stand is considered contaminated and has to be covered in bleach. Eventually, a very grateful and completely sweat-sodden worker emerges from inside.
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  • Reina, at the corn mill in a Q'eqchi house in Concepción Actelá, Alta Verapaz. World Renew is beginning to work in Concepción Actelá, through its Guatemalan partner ADIP.
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  • Juana, A Q'eqchi woman in Concepción Actelá, Alta Verapaz. World Renew is beginning to work in Concepción Actelá, through its Guatemalan partner ADIP.
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  • Portrait of a boy in Concepción Actelá, Alta Verapaz.
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  • A woman picks coffee at a COCATRAL farm. COCATRAL, Cooperativa Cafetalera Agricola Trascerros Ltda, is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer in Nueva Frontera, Santa Barbara, Honduras.
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  • At the peak of the Ebola outbreak in Guinea, the Nongo Ebola treatment centre had so many patients arriving at its gates that people were left to die on the gravel outside. <br />
“One night, 28 people died here. I still have nightmares, I saw too many dead people,” said Dr Mohammed Keita, manager of the centre where he was in charge of 250 employees.  <br />
The former Ebola treatment centre appears abandoned. Boot stands and shelves once filled with protective gear and chlorine spray backpacks lie empty.  <br />
Keita tells how one night a pregnant woman came in to the centre. She was already bleeding and very ill. It was too late to save her. She gave birth to a baby girl before she died. <br />
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“That little baby was blessed by God,” he said, pointing to a photo of the child taped to the wall where patient records and lists of staff mark the wall. <br />
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She tested positive for Ebola and we were prepared to lose her as well. Then, a few days later, she tested negative for the disease. We all looked after her here, naming her Nubia after one of the health workers who worked at the centre.<br />
Since the Ebola outbreak ended, the treatment centre is now caring for people with other infectious diseases including measles, yellow fever and other diseases with potential to cause epidemics.
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  • Portrait of a boy in Concepción Actelá, Alta Verapaz.
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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
    Colombia_Hawkey_FT_Antioquia_2017090...jpg
  • 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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  • A street scene in Mukuru Kwa Njenga, Nairobi, with open sewage on the right of the picture. The city suffers serious challenges to waste management in the slum areas.
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  • Rolando Herrera <br />
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My father was a police officer. He died in 2010, he was killed.<br />
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In that time Olancho was in a difficult situation. Drug trafficking had grown a lot, the authorities didn’t do anything, there was no other authority. We would walk through Juticalpa and see the traffickers controlling everything in the street. One time I saw a crowd of people and could hear people shouting, as I approached I could see that they were burning some people alive in the street, they poured petrol on them and set them on fire, in front of all the people. I don’t know what it was about. That sort of thing would happen.<br />
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Girls and women couldn’t go out, they didn’t dare to go out, so they had to close some schools, no one wanted to go to school. If a trafficker wanted a girl, he’d just take her on the street, drive her away, she might never be seen again. <br />
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To get to work, I bought a motorbike on credit, and one day the traffickers stopped me on the street, at gunpoint, and took the bike. I never saw it again, but had to carry on paying the quotas for the loan, even though I didn’t have the bike.<br />
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Most of the houses in my neighbourhood had two or three kids, we used to play on the street. Within a few years, no one played outside, and all the kids, absolutely all of the kids, became migrants and went to the US. A few of them were killed, some in front of their house, before they could leave. It became a ghost town, many houses are abandoned, some in serious disrepair, some houses had their roofs and doors removed.  To go into the area you have to drive slowly with the windows down, and report to the trafficker guards, telling them who you were going to visit. If you drive fast or with the windows up, you’ll be shot.<br />
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So, I went to the US. I was there for a while. I made two trips, the first one failed, it went bad. I went with a people smuggler. We had a guide, and we met a group of the Zetas, they killed the guide in front of us, they cut his throat and decapi
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  • neighbours complained that the teargas put small children and the elderly at serious risk. Here, clouds of teargas in the Kennedy neighbourhood. Tear gas cannisters are reputed to cost the government $200 each, which is more than most people earn a month. Many thousands of cannisters were shot during the day to keep protestors at bay.
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  • Horses in El Playón. Horses are used for pulling carts to extract sand artisanally from the Carepa river. Industrial sand mining, with excavators and lorries are causing serious erosion of the river.
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  • In Estanzuelas, Copán, many houses were damaged and crops were destroyed. This village is one of the poorest in the region suffering from malnutrition, serious health problems and overcrowding.
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  • Landslide in San Luis Planes, Santa Bárbara. The region of Santa Bárbara continues to be badly affected by landslides. Fairtrade-certified cooperative Montaña Verde is based in San Luis Planes and coop members are all affected by climate change, hurricanes and landslides. Serious problems with access to farms, loss of land, loss of topsoil, washed-out nutrients, the early fall of unripe cherries, leaf drop, root rot, and a proliferation of fungal diseases all affect the producers.
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  • A protestor returns a teargas cannister to the police. neighbours complained that the teargas put small children and the elderly at serious risk. Tear gas cannisters are reputed to cost the government $200 each, which is more than most people earn a month. Many thousands of cannisters were shot during the day to keep protestors at bay.
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  • Maria del Cid Aguilar, mother of five, community leader and coffee farmer, on her coffee farm in Las Marias, Usulután, El Salvador. Maria explains that leaf rust has destroyed most of her coffee farm, and she is preparing to plant cocoa alongside it, because it is more resistent to the higher temperatures and humidity that have come with climate change. Climate change adaptation is a serious challenge for organisations working in rural areas.
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  • In Estanzuelas, Copán, many houses were damaged by subsidence and landslides and crops were destroyed. This village is one of the poorest in the region suffering from malnutrition, serious health problems and overcrowding.
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  • In Estanzuelas, Copán, many houses were damaged by subsidence and landslides and crops were destroyed. This village is one of the poorest in the region suffering from malnutrition, serious health problems and overcrowding.
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  • Lourdes López Vásquez, 16, with her baby Saida, 9 months old. <br />
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“The family was evacuated at midnight, that was during hurricane Eta. We heard thundering noises coming from underground, from inside the mountain” said Lourdes, “We were all evacuated, it was dark, we all felt sad”. Lourdes’ family is one of 60 families affected by the landslide in the village of El Zapote, San Luis Planes, Santa Bárbara. That night six houses were destroyed by a landslide there and another 55 were made unsafe by subsidence, and have now been declared uninhabitable. The region of Santa Bárbara, with steep mountain slopes that are ideal for coffee growing, is particularly prone to landslides. Fairtrade-certified cooperative Montaña Verde is based in San Luis Planes and coop members are all affected by climate change, hurricanes and landslides. Serious problems with access to farms, loss of land, loss of topsoil, washed-out nutrients, the early fall of unripe cherries, leaf drop, root rot, and a proliferation of fungal diseases all affect the producers, as well as the loss of their corn and bean crops that they rely on as their staple food.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201206_94...jpg
  • In Estanzuelas, Copán, many houses were damaged by subsidence and landslides and crops were destroyed. This village is one of the poorest in the region suffering from malnutrition, serious health problems and overcrowding.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201130_76...jpg
  • In Estanzuelas, Copán, many houses were damaged by subsidence and landslides and crops were destroyed. This village is one of the poorest in the region suffering from malnutrition, serious health problems and overcrowding.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201129_76...jpg
  • In Estanzuelas, Copán, many houses were damaged and crops were destroyed. This village is one of the poorest in the region suffering from malnutrition, serious health problems and overcrowding.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201129_76...jpg
  • Lourdes López Vásquez, 16, with her baby Saida, 9 months old. <br />
<br />
“The family was evacuated at midnight, that was during hurricane Eta. We heard thundering noises coming from underground, from inside the mountain” said Lourdes, “We were all evacuated, it was dark, we all felt sad”. Lourdes’ family is one of 60 families affected by the landslide in the village of El Zapote, San Luis Planes, Santa Bárbara. That night six houses were destroyed by a landslide there and another 55 were made unsafe by subsidence, and have now been declared uninhabitable. The region of Santa Bárbara, with steep mountain slopes that are ideal for coffee growing, is particularly prone to landslides. Fairtrade-certified cooperative Montaña Verde is based in San Luis Planes and coop members are all affected by climate change, hurricanes and landslides. Serious problems with access to farms, loss of land, loss of topsoil, washed-out nutrients, the early fall of unripe cherries, leaf drop, root rot, and a proliferation of fungal diseases all affect the producers, as well as the loss of their corn and bean crops that they rely on as their staple food.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201206_94...jpg
  • Lourdes López Vásquez, 16, with her baby Saida, 9 months old. <br />
<br />
“The family was evacuated at midnight, that was during hurricane Eta. We heard thundering noises coming from underground, from inside the mountain” said Lourdes, “We were all evacuated, it was dark, we all felt sad”. Lourdes’ family is one of 60 families affected by the landslide in the village of El Zapote, San Luis Planes, Santa Bárbara. That night six houses were destroyed by a landslide there and another 55 were made unsafe by subsidence, and have now been declared uninhabitable. The region of Santa Bárbara, with steep mountain slopes that are ideal for coffee growing, is particularly prone to landslides. Fairtrade-certified cooperative Montaña Verde is based in San Luis Planes and coop members are all affected by climate change, hurricanes and landslides. Serious problems with access to farms, loss of land, loss of topsoil, washed-out nutrients, the early fall of unripe cherries, leaf drop, root rot, and a proliferation of fungal diseases all affect the producers, as well as the loss of their corn and bean crops that they rely on as their staple food.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201206_94...jpg
  • Lourdes López Vásquez, 16.<br />
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“The family was evacuated at midnight, that was during hurricane Eta. We heard thundering noises coming from underground, from inside the mountain” said Lourdes, “We were all evacuated, it was dark, we all felt sad”. Lourdes’ family is one of 60 families affected by the landslide in the village of El Zapote, San Luis Planes, Santa Bárbara. That night six houses were destroyed by a landslide there and another 55 were made unsafe by subsidence, and have now been declared uninhabitable. The region of Santa Bárbara, with steep mountain slopes that are ideal for coffee growing, is particularly prone to landslides. Fairtrade-certified cooperative Montaña Verde is based in San Luis Planes and coop members are all affected by climate change, hurricanes and landslides. Serious problems with access to farms, loss of land, loss of topsoil, washed-out nutrients, the early fall of unripe cherries, leaf drop, root rot, and a proliferation of fungal diseases all affect the producers, as well as the loss of their corn and bean crops that they rely on as their staple food.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201206_94...jpg
  • In Estanzuelas, Copán, many houses were damaged by subsidence and landslides and crops were destroyed. This village is one of the poorest in the region suffering from malnutrition, serious health problems and overcrowding.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201129_76...jpg
  • Portrait of a woman in Panasabasta village, Baghamari gram panchayat,  Begunia Block, Khurda, Orissa. In this area filariasis is endemic, there are 225 patients in the five small villages of this gram panchayat. Worldwide there are more than 40 million people seriously incapacitated and deformed by the disease.
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  • Portrait of a man in Panasabasta village, Baghamari gram panchayat,  Begunia Block, Khurda, Orissa. In this area filariasis is endemic, there are 225 patients in the five small villages of this gram panchayat. Worldwide there are more than 40 million people seriously incapacitated and deformed by the disease.
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