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  • Indigenous Maya Chortí men work with hoes during the occupation of land to secure some farmland for the indigenous people.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Jesus_20031013_002.jpg
  • Maya Chortí men help a water engineer take topographic readings for a drinking water system. The water system was never built because of threats from local landowners.
    honduras_hawkey_20031013_104.jpg
  • Indigenous Maya Chortí men work with hoes during the occupation of land to secure some farmland for the indigenous people.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Jesus_20031013_001.jpg
  • A Maya Chortí family at home in the Copán region of Honduras
    honduras_hawkey_20031013_078.jpg
  • honduras_hawkey_20031013_074.jpg
  • Indigenous Maya Chortí men work with hoes during the occupation of land to secure some farmland for the indigenous people.
    honduras_hawkey_20031013_140.jpg
  • Indigenous Maya Chortí men work with hoes during the occupation of land to secure some farmland for the indigenous people.
    honduras_hawkey_20031013_134.jpg
  • Jesús Alberto Monroy Díaz, postmaster, Copán Ruinas.<br />
<br />
I liked working from an early age. From when I was eight I worked in whatever I could. I used to pass beans to Guatemala, at midnight with a mule, and the next day I’d bring back sugar, because there was no sugar in Honduras, only in Guatemala. Now you can get everything. At that time there weren’t many roads, everything had to be brought on a mule, now everything is modernised and nothing is taken on mules.<br />
<br />
Now I send packages with a barcode. They have the GPS system. The system tells you where the package is. Everything is modernised.<br />
<br />
From the age of 15 I worked cutting yucca plants, in Guatemala. We’d cut chunks of the stem and then in the factory in Guatemala City they’d put on a hormone and colour, and that made is sprout colourful flowers. They’d cover the bits of stem in cement and export them. I worked for three years in that, and then I came back here to work in the post office.<br />
<br />
I worked in Honducor (the post office), Bancrecer (a bank), in the municipality, then in the Customs office at the El Florido border post. While I was there Ricardo Maduro won the Presidency and I had to leave, and I put my papers in to work at the post office again, I’ve now worked here for 22 years.<br />
<br />
My life has been about work, I am happy, and yes, I feel proud.<br />
<br />
************<br />
A mi me gustaba trabajar desde muy niño. A partir de los ocho años trabajaba en lo que pude. Pasaba frijoles para Guatemala, a medianoche en mula, y el día siguiente a traía azucar, porque no había azucar en Honduras, sólo en Guatemala. Ahora hay de todo aquí. En ese entonces no habían muchas carreterras, había que traer todo en mula, ahora esta todo modernizado y nadie va con mula. <br />
<br />
Ahora mando paquetes con código de barra. Van con un sistema de GPS. El sistema te dice por donde va. Todo esta modernizado.<br />
<br />
De los 15 años de edad me dedicaba a cortar izote, allí en Guatemala. Cortabamos el palo, y allí en la fábrica en la
    Honduras_Hawkey_20180319_2828.jpg
  • Maya-Chortí people celebrate a mass in thanksgiving for the corn harvest during the Festival de Maíz.
    honduras_hawkey_20170810_210.jpg
  • Indigenous Maya Chortí man and woman operate a video camera in Copán, Honduras
    honduras_hawkey_20121207_003.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
    Colombia_Hawkey_FT_Antioquia_2017090...jpg
  • A cowboy rides his horse through San Lorenzo and smokes a cigarette
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  • Felipe Gómez, community leader of the defence of the Gualquarque river against a megadam project. Berta Cáceres and several others have been killed during the struggle.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Amnesty_20190207_129...jpg
  • An indigenous Maya Chortí man during the occupation of land to secure some farmland for the indigenous people.
    honduras_hawkey_20031013_121.jpg
  • Extensive nurseries are maintained at COAGRICSAL, Fairtrade-certified cooperative in La Entrada, Copán, Honduras.
    Honduras_Hawkey_COAGRICSAL_20160714_...jpg
  • Arcadio de Jesus Ruiz Cardona is a coffee farmer in Santa Elena, Andes, Antioquia: "I'm 62 years old, 62 and a half"<br />
 <br />
"The technical support from the coop is useful, when they come we learn new things, me and my sons."<br />
<br />
"I’m inscribed in the BEPS programme, the pensions, it’s a sort of savings, we put some money in, the coop does and I do when I sell coffee, and then I can get money out, a collaboration, a pension, when I need it. I will be more secure in my old age.<br />
<br />
It means I can believe in a good future, no one could do that before. <br />
<br />
I worked for a company in Medellín for years, and my pension contributions from then would be lost, because they are out of date, but through the BEPS programme with the coop I can get that money too, which is good, knowing that it would be lost otherwise."<br />
<br />
The Fairtrade Premium is used by the Andes Coop in Antioquia, Colombia, to set up and run the BEPS pensions programme with its members.<br />
<br />
Here Arcadio speaks with technical staff from the Andes Coop on his farm.
    Colombia_Hawkey_FT_Antioquia_2017090...jpg
  • 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.
    Honduras_Hawkey_migrants_20190204_52...jpg
  • Felipe Gómez, community leader of the defence of the Gualquarque river against a megadam project. Berta Cáceres and several others have been killed during the struggle.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Amnesty_20190207_129...jpg
  • Presentación Castellanos, who struggles with a group of other farmers at La Cuchilla, for a small plot of land to farm. the group of landless farmers are struggling for the right to farm an idle plot of land high in the mountains, but have met with hostility and threats. They are organised through the Lenca organisation COPINH, once led by Berta Cáceres who was assassinated.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Amnesty_20190206_549.jpg
  • Manuel Pineda in el Palmar, Santa Bárbara. Manuel has been fighting for a small piece of land since the mid-1970s. Attempts to dissuade his group of nearly 40 farmers have included burning down of buildings, assassination, hostility and threats and intimidation. Manuel is organised through the group COPINH, once led by Berta Cáceres, who was assassinated.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Amnesty_20190206_493.jpg
  • Ramón "Moncho" Jimenez in el Palmar, Santa Bárbara. Moncho has been fighting for a small piece of land since the mid-1970s. He stands where his friend Moises was shot dead by hired killers on the land they have struggled to farm for decades. The killers were hired to dissuade them, and prevent a successful precedent of landless farmers taking idle land.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Amnesty_20190206_414.jpg
  • Manuel Pineda in el Palmar, Santa Bárbara. Manuel has been fighting for a small piece of land since the mid-1970s. Attempts to dissuade his group of nearly 40 farmers have included burning down of buildings, assassination, hostility and threats and intimidation. Manuel is organised through the group COPINH, once led by Berta Cáceres, who was assassinated.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Amnesty_20190206_461.jpg
  • Manuel Pineda in el Palmar, Santa Bárbara. Manuel has been fighting for a small piece of land since the mid-1970s. Attempts to dissuade his group of nearly 40 farmers have included burning down of buildings, assassination, hostility and threats and intimidation. Manuel is organised through the group COPINH, once led by Berta Cáceres, who was assassinated.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Amnesty_20190206_452.jpg
  • Ramón "Moncho" Jimenez in el Palmar, Santa Bárbara. Moncho has been fighting for a small piece of land since the mid-1970s. He stands where his friend Moises was shot dead by hired killers on the land they have struggled to farm for decades. The killers were hired to dissuade them, and prevent a successful precedent of landless farmers taking idle land.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Amnesty_20190206_437.jpg
  • A horserider in the indigenous Tolupán territory of Montaña de la Flor, Honduras.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Tolupanes__20170218_...jpg
  • A pensative Mel Zelaya, who was ousted from the presidency and removed from the country in a coup in 2009.
    honduras_hawkey_20180124_034.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
  • Arnulfo López Gómez in Las Flores, Jocotán, Guatemala. This part of the country is highly affected by climate change. Rainfall patterns in the last seven years have been unreliable, with too little or too irregular rainfall to get harvest of corn and beans. Many farmers have lost the seeds they plant. As the drought seems unending, the farmers diversify their income searching for employment as day labourers, travelling often for months at a time.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Jocotan_LWF_2016072...jpg
  • 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.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Jocotan_LWF_2016072...jpg
  • Juan García Gonzalez working on his corn field  in Las Flores, Jocotán, Guatemala, Mr Garcia is part of the Indigenous Council here. This part of the country is highly affected by climate change. Rainfall patterns in the last seven years have been unreliable, with too little or too irregular rainfall to get harvest of corn and beans. Many farmers have lost the seeds they plant. As the drought seems unending, the farmers diversify their income searching for employment as day labourers, travelling often for months at a time.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Jocotan_LWF_2016072...jpg
  • Juan García Gonzalez working on his corn field  in Las Flores, Jocotán, Guatemala, Mr Garcia is part of the Indigenous Council here. This part of the country is highly affected by climate change. Rainfall patterns in the last seven years have been unreliable, with too little or too irregular rainfall to get harvest of corn and beans. Many farmers have lost the seeds they plant. As the drought seems unending, the farmers diversify their income searching for employment as day labourers, travelling often for months at a time.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Jocotan_LWF_2016072...jpg
  • A coffee farmer stands in lush vegetation of his coffee farm on the Cuna Chorti cooperative, a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer based in Chiquimula, Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_CunaChorti_20120307...jpg
  • Viviano Ramírez Mendoza, coffee farmer and member of CODECH coop, wears a hat and the indigenous clothing typical of the Todos los Santos region. CODECH is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer in Concepción Huista, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_CODECH_20120314_024.jpg
  • Arcadio de Jesus Ruiz Cardona is a coffee farmer in Santa Elena, Andes, Antioquia: "I'm 62 years old, 62 and a half"<br />
 <br />
"The technical support from the coop is useful, when they come we learn new things, me and my sons."<br />
<br />
"I’m inscribed in the BEPS programme, the pensions, it’s a sort of savings, we put some money in, the coop does and I do when I sell coffee, and then I can get money out, a collaboration, a pension, when I need it. I will be more secure in my old age.<br />
<br />
It means I can believe in a good future, no one could do that before. <br />
<br />
I worked for a company in Medellín for years, and my pension contributions from then would be lost, because they are out of date, but through the BEPS programme with the coop I can get that money too, which is good, knowing that it would be lost otherwise."<br />
<br />
The Fairtrade Premium is used by the Andes Coop in Antioquia, Colombia, to set up and run the BEPS pensions programme with its members.
    Colombia_Hawkey_FT_Antioquia_2017090...jpg
  • Arcadio de Jesus Ruiz Cardona is a coffee farmer in Santa Elena, Andes, Antioquia: "I'm 62 years old, 62 and a half"<br />
 <br />
"The technical support from the coop is useful, when they come we learn new things, me and my sons."<br />
<br />
"I’m inscribed in the BEPS programme, the pensions, it’s a sort of savings, we put some money in, the coop does and I do when I sell coffee, and then I can get money out, a collaboration, a pension, when I need it. I will be more secure in my old age.<br />
<br />
It means I can believe in a good future, no one could do that before. <br />
<br />
I worked for a company in Medellín for years, and my pension contributions from then would be lost, because they are out of date, but through the BEPS programme with the coop I can get that money too, which is good, knowing that it would be lost otherwise."<br />
<br />
The Fairtrade Premium is used by the Andes Coop in Antioquia, Colombia, to set up and run the BEPS pensions programme with its members.
    Colombia_Hawkey_FT_Antioquia_2017090...jpg
  • Jesús Alberto Monroy Díaz, postmaster, Copán Ruinas.<br />
<br />
I liked working from an early age. From when I was eight I worked in whatever I could. I used to pass beans to Guatemala, at midnight with a mule, and the next day I’d bring back sugar, because there was no sugar in Honduras, only in Guatemala. Now you can get everything. At that time there weren’t many roads, everything had to be brought on a mule, now everything is modernised and nothing is taken on mules.<br />
<br />
Now I send packages with a barcode. They have the GPS system. The system tells you where the package is. Everything is modernised.<br />
<br />
From the age of 15 I worked cutting yucca plants, in Guatemala. We’d cut chunks of the stem and then in the factory in Guatemala City they’d put on a hormone and colour, and that made is sprout colourful flowers. They’d cover the bits of stem in cement and export them. I worked for three years in that, and then I came back here to work in the post office.<br />
<br />
I worked in Honducor (the post office), Bancrecer (a bank), in the municipality, then in the Customs office at the El Florido border post. While I was there Ricardo Maduro won the Presidency and I had to leave, and I put my papers in to work at the post office again, I’ve now worked here for 22 years.<br />
<br />
My life has been about work, I am happy, and yes, I feel proud.<br />
<br />
************<br />
A mi me gustaba trabajar desde muy niño. A partir de los ocho años trabajaba en lo que pude. Pasaba frijoles para Guatemala, a medianoche en mula, y el día siguiente a traía azucar, porque no había azucar en Honduras, sólo en Guatemala. Ahora hay de todo aquí. En ese entonces no habían muchas carreterras, había que traer todo en mula, ahora esta todo modernizado y nadie va con mula. <br />
<br />
Ahora mando paquetes con código de barra. Van con un sistema de GPS. El sistema te dice por donde va. Todo esta modernizado.<br />
<br />
De los 15 años de edad me dedicaba a cortar izote, allí en Guatemala. Cortabamos el palo, y allí en la fábrica en la
    Honduras_Hawkey_20180319_2831.jpg
  • Jesús Alberto Monroy Díaz, postmaster, Copán Ruinas.<br />
<br />
I liked working from an early age. From when I was eight I worked in whatever I could. I used to pass beans to Guatemala, at midnight with a mule, and the next day I’d bring back sugar, because there was no sugar in Honduras, only in Guatemala. Now you can get everything. At that time there weren’t many roads, everything had to be brought on a mule, now everything is modernised and nothing is taken on mules.<br />
<br />
Now I send packages with a barcode. They have the GPS system. The system tells you where the package is. Everything is modernised.<br />
<br />
From the age of 15 I worked cutting yucca plants, in Guatemala. We’d cut chunks of the stem and then in the factory in Guatemala City they’d put on a hormone and colour, and that made is sprout colourful flowers. They’d cover the bits of stem in cement and export them. I worked for three years in that, and then I came back here to work in the post office.<br />
<br />
I worked in Honducor (the post office), Bancrecer (a bank), in the municipality, then in the Customs office at the El Florido border post. While I was there Ricardo Maduro won the Presidency and I had to leave, and I put my papers in to work at the post office again, I’ve now worked here for 22 years.<br />
<br />
My life has been about work, I am happy, and yes, I feel proud.<br />
<br />
************<br />
A mi me gustaba trabajar desde muy niño. A partir de los ocho años trabajaba en lo que pude. Pasaba frijoles para Guatemala, a medianoche en mula, y el día siguiente a traía azucar, porque no había azucar en Honduras, sólo en Guatemala. Ahora hay de todo aquí. En ese entonces no habían muchas carreterras, había que traer todo en mula, ahora esta todo modernizado y nadie va con mula. <br />
<br />
Ahora mando paquetes con código de barra. Van con un sistema de GPS. El sistema te dice por donde va. Todo esta modernizado.<br />
<br />
De los 15 años de edad me dedicaba a cortar izote, allí en Guatemala. Cortabamos el palo, y allí en la fábrica en la
    Honduras_Hawkey_20180319_2813.jpg
  • Jesús Alberto Monroy Díaz, postmaster, Copán Ruinas.<br />
<br />
I liked working from an early age. From when I was eight I worked in whatever I could. I used to pass beans to Guatemala, at midnight with a mule, and the next day I’d bring back sugar, because there was no sugar in Honduras, only in Guatemala. Now you can get everything. At that time there weren’t many roads, everything had to be brought on a mule, now everything is modernised and nothing is taken on mules.<br />
<br />
Now I send packages with a barcode. They have the GPS system. The system tells you where the package is. Everything is modernised.<br />
<br />
From the age of 15 I worked cutting yucca plants, in Guatemala. We’d cut chunks of the stem and then in the factory in Guatemala City they’d put on a hormone and colour, and that made is sprout colourful flowers. They’d cover the bits of stem in cement and export them. I worked for three years in that, and then I came back here to work in the post office.<br />
<br />
I worked in Honducor (the post office), Bancrecer (a bank), in the municipality, then in the Customs office at the El Florido border post. While I was there Ricardo Maduro won the Presidency and I had to leave, and I put my papers in to work at the post office again, I’ve now worked here for 22 years.<br />
<br />
My life has been about work, I am happy, and yes, I feel proud.<br />
<br />
************<br />
A mi me gustaba trabajar desde muy niño. A partir de los ocho años trabajaba en lo que pude. Pasaba frijoles para Guatemala, a medianoche en mula, y el día siguiente a traía azucar, porque no había azucar en Honduras, sólo en Guatemala. Ahora hay de todo aquí. En ese entonces no habían muchas carreterras, había que traer todo en mula, ahora esta todo modernizado y nadie va con mula. <br />
<br />
Ahora mando paquetes con código de barra. Van con un sistema de GPS. El sistema te dice por donde va. Todo esta modernizado.<br />
<br />
De los 15 años de edad me dedicaba a cortar izote, allí en Guatemala. Cortabamos el palo, y allí en la fábrica en la
    Honduras_Hawkey_20180319_2821.jpg
  • An elderly man 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.
    Honduras_Hawkey_migrants_20190204_57...jpg
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  • Mel Zelaya, the President of Honduras who was ousted in a US-backed military coup in 2009, appeared during street protests in the Kennedy neighbourhood. Riot police shot tear gas as he arrived.
    Honduras_Hawkey_migrants_20190127_96...jpg
  • Mel Zelaya, the President of Honduras who was ousted in a US-backed military coup in 2009, appeared during street protests in the Kennedy neighbourhood. Riot police shot tear gas as he arrived.
    Honduras_Hawkey_migrants_20190127_99...jpg
  • Hats for sale at the march for Berta Cáceres in Tegucigalpa.<br />
<br />
On March 1st 2017 a march of indigenous people was held to commemmorate the assassination of indigenous Lenca leader Berta Cáceres. Lencas, Tolupans, Maya Chortís, Pech, Miskitos and Garifunas marched to the Supreme Court of Justice in Tegucigalpa.
    Honduras_Hawkey_BertaCaceres_2017030...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
  • John Sánchez García, Tascalapa, Santa Bárbara, Honduras. To replace coffee plants damaged and destroyed by leaf rust, nurseries like this have been set up, with support from Finnish Fairtrade, through PAOLT, a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer.
    Honduras_Hawkey_PAOLT_20160715_141.jpg
  • Coffee mucilage or pulp pours into a wheelbarrow to be disposed of in the compost system. Cooperativa Agropecuaria de Producción Flor del Pino is a Fairtrade-certified producer based in Ocotepeque, Honduras.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Flor_Del_Pino_201202...jpg
  • Extensive nurseries are maintained at COAGRICSAL, Fairtrade-certified cooperative in La Entrada, Copán, Honduras.
    Honduras_Hawkey_COAGRICSAL_20160714_...jpg
  • Pruning in the COAGRICSAL nurseries. COAGRICSAL is a Fairtrade-certified producer of coffee and other products based in La Entrada, Honduras.
    Honduras_Hawkey_COAGRICSAL_20120130_...jpg
  • Juan García Gonzalez working on his corn field  in Las Flores, Jocotán, Guatemala, Mr Garcia is part of the Indigenous Council here. This part of the country is highly affected by climate change. Rainfall patterns in the last seven years have been unreliable, with too little or too irregular rainfall to get harvest of corn and beans. Many farmers have lost the seeds they plant. As the drought seems unending, the farmers diversify their income searching for employment as day labourers, travelling often for months at a time.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Jocotan_LWF_2016072...jpg
  • Juan Gonzalez is a member of the Cuna Chorti coffee farming coop. His ripe coffee cherries are ready to be picked on his coffee farm. This year, instead of ripening over three months, all the coffee ripened in one month, and farmers are putting this down to climate change. This has caused  problems as there isn't enough labour to pick the coffee in one month, so some coffee is being lost. Cuna Chorti cooperative is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer based in Chiquimula, Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_CunaChorti_20120307...jpg
  • Viviano Ramírez Mendoza, coffee farmer and member of CODECH coop, wears a hat and the indigenous clothing typical of the Todos los Santos region. CODECH is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer in Concepción Huista, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_CODECH_20120314_009.jpg
  • Arcadio de Jesus Ruiz Cardona is a coffee farmer in Santa Elena, Andes, Antioquia: "I'm 62 years old, 62 and a half"<br />
 <br />
"The technical support from the coop is useful, when they come we learn new things, me and my sons."<br />
<br />
"I’m inscribed in the BEPS programme, the pensions, it’s a sort of savings, we put some money in, the coop does and I do when I sell coffee, and then I can get money out, a collaboration, a pension, when I need it. I will be more secure in my old age.<br />
<br />
It means I can believe in a good future, no one could do that before. <br />
<br />
I worked for a company in Medellín for years, and my pension contributions from then would be lost, because they are out of date, but through the BEPS programme with the coop I can get that money too, which is good, knowing that it would be lost otherwise."<br />
<br />
The Fairtrade Premium is used by the Andes Coop in Antioquia, Colombia, to set up and run the BEPS pensions programme with its members.
    Colombia_Hawkey_FT_Antioquia_2017090...jpg
  • Arcadio de Jesus Ruiz Cardona is a coffee farmer in Santa Elena, Andes, Antioquia: "I'm 62 years old, 62 and a half"<br />
 <br />
"The technical support from the coop is useful, when they come we learn new things, me and my sons."<br />
<br />
"I’m inscribed in the BEPS programme, the pensions, it’s a sort of savings, we put some money in, the coop does and I do when I sell coffee, and then I can get money out, a collaboration, a pension, when I need it. I will be more secure in my old age.<br />
<br />
It means I can believe in a good future, no one could do that before. <br />
<br />
I worked for a company in Medellín for years, and my pension contributions from then would be lost, because they are out of date, but through the BEPS programme with the coop I can get that money too, which is good, knowing that it would be lost otherwise."<br />
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The Fairtrade Premium is used by the Andes Coop in Antioquia, Colombia, to set up and run the BEPS pensions programme with its members.
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  • Arcadio de Jesus Ruiz Cardona is a coffee farmer in Santa Elena, Andes, Antioquia: "I'm 62 years old, 62 and a half"<br />
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"The technical support from the coop is useful, when they come we learn new things, me and my sons."<br />
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"I’m inscribed in the BEPS programme, the pensions, it’s a sort of savings, we put some money in, the coop does and I do when I sell coffee, and then I can get money out, a collaboration, a pension, when I need it. I will be more secure in my old age.<br />
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It means I can believe in a good future, no one could do that before. <br />
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I worked for a company in Medellín for years, and my pension contributions from then would be lost, because they are out of date, but through the BEPS programme with the coop I can get that money too, which is good, knowing that it would be lost otherwise."<br />
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The Fairtrade Premium is used by the Andes Coop in Antioquia, Colombia, to set up and run the BEPS pensions programme with its members.
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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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  • A farmer on Finca La Alemania, Sucre. The community leader Rogelio Martinez was killed on the farm a month prior.
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  • Sombreros with messages supporting Juan Orlando Hernández on sale during a march to support the President. Daily demonstrations against the President were made amid the widespread belief that the president has used fraud to hold onto power. Videos circulated of people being paid to attend to pro-government march.
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  • Bareback horse races at Mauro Cueva's farm near Copán Ruinas
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