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  • Maria Jesús Medina Pineda, Ciudad Nueva, Marcala<br />
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My mother died when I was five years old, we were ten brothers and sisters. We grew up, how could I tell you, it was a horrible thing. My father had already left the country because of political problems. Damned political parties. They wanted to kill him. We suffered a lot of hunger. The family disintegrated, some left, some died. I stayed with my older sister, she’s still alive, she’ll be 100 years old in September.<br />
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I haven’t always lived here, I used to live near the Catholic church in Marcala. But because we toast coffee, the smoke polluted the air in the city, so we moved out here. I’m 80 and I work every day. That’s the secret to eternal youth, work hard and be honest, I have no ailments, I’m healthy. I had three children, one is in the United States. The boy manages the coffee factory. We prepare, toast and sell coffee in bags. We have been toasting coffee for 40 years, I was the first to do it. I began playing around with it, with plastic bags, I used to send the children out to the street to sell them, or to the neighbours, at three Colons a pound, at that time we used the Colon (Salvadorean currency), as we are near to the Salvadorean border. It’s an honest business, a healthy business. The father of my children died. I didn’t get married, I just had my children, with a military man, he was already married. I have a grandson who is a pilot and another who is a civil engineer and he’s in the United States, you can’t get work here, only if you are involved in politics you can get a job here.<br />
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I fell madly in love with the military man, I was about 22 years old, I had my kids with him.<br />
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With the business, I began in shocking poverty. We didn’t know what to do then. I worked as a secretary in the Junta Nacional. And I worked in the high command of the Army, from four until nine at night. I earned 225 Lempiras in the Junta, and 150 in the high command. I’d put aside 30 Lempiras for the c
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  • 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 young woman in Khurda, Odisha.
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  • A young woman carries firewood from podding coffee bushes at the Las Lajas coop, part of the UCRAPROBEX coop. UCRAPROBEX a certified Fairtrade producer based in El Salvador.
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  • Mirtala López: "I was a shy woman before. But, a few years ago, I began taking part in the savings group Amor y Fé. I would go and put my money in, but I’d never speak. Bit by bit, I began to take a more active part in the group, and I was elected to run it, as President of the group for eight years. We had a good group, 30 people, we began to celebrate Mothers Day, Women’s Day, Christmas, International Day of the Child, and the group grew to 70 women. But then my husband died, and I had to withdraw. But I still meet all those women and they say that I motivated them. We used to have days out, excursions, and the money that we’d make from the excursions we’d spend on lunches, it was a lovely group. I moved on to the family garden groups, and I had to learn a lot. But it was a lovely process, planting seeds, for gardens, and for communities. There is a practical benefit, and a spiritual benefit. This has helped me to be the woman that I am today. I would never have thought that I’d go and sit with government representatives and hold them to rights, but I do. I used to be really shy, I’d never speak. Now they have to stop me. Whoever is in the government, I will go there and ask for support for our community. The government has got a responsibility, and they have resources. And we put in our part, our labour, we have a responsibility too. The work with World Renew has trained us to open those doors to government support, and to solving our own problems."
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  • Silvia Maria Alvarez Rosales<br />
Tenquiscapa<br />
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I have migrated to the US seven times. The last time was a very bad experience.<br />
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At the beginning it was fun, going through Mexico. But, as soon as I got across the river into the US, it was bad. It is dangerous, you can lose everything including your life.<br />
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My feet were tired, I’d been walking three days and nights, I had injuries on my feet, my socks were stuck to my feet, I couldn’t bear it any more. That night, we were walking through forest, there were thorns, the thorns would get stuck in my skin, scratch and injure me. We could see lights way off in the distance. It was evening time, I saw a woman who’d given birth, both the woman and the baby were dead. I got scared, the guide got hold of me and covered my mouth to stop me screaming. The smuggler wasn’t bad, he left me on a road where I’d get picked up by the migration. <br />
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Migration passed by a few times before picking me up. Eventually they woke me up, I could hardly stand up, they treated my wounds. I asked for political asylum, and I was left in prison for seven months before being deported. My family thought I was dead, there aren’t any international calls. When I got back here, I got off the bus, and my father saw me and he fell down on the ground and couldn’t stop crying. <br />
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The LWF has helped me set up my own salon, they’ve helped me a lot, to buy my equipment, they’ve given me training. Now I have a job, I have no need to leave again.<br />
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LWF’s program for returned and deported migrants is supported by ELCA.
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  • Silvia Maria Alvarez Rosales<br />
Tenquiscapa<br />
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I have migrated to the US seven times. The last time was a very bad experience.<br />
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At the beginning it was fun, going through Mexico. But, as soon as I got across the river into the US, it was bad. It is dangerous, you can lose everything including your life.<br />
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My feet were tired, I’d been walking three days and nights, I had injuries on my feet, my socks were stuck to my feet, I couldn’t bear it any more. That night, we were walking through forest, there were thorns, the thorns would get stuck in my skin, scratch and injure me. We could see lights way off in the distance. It was evening time, I saw a woman who’d given birth, both the woman and the baby were dead. I got scared, the guide got hold of me and covered my mouth to stop me screaming. The smuggler wasn’t bad, he left me on a road where I’d get picked up by the migration. <br />
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Migration passed by a few times before picking me up. Eventually they woke me up, I could hardly stand up, they treated my wounds. I asked for political asylum, and I was left in prison for seven months before being deported. My family thought I was dead, there aren’t any international calls. When I got back here, I got off the bus, and my father saw me and he fell down on the ground and couldn’t stop crying. <br />
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The LWF has helped me set up my own salon, they’ve helped me a lot, to buy my equipment, they’ve given me training. Now I have a job, I have no need to leave again.<br />
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LWF’s program for returned and deported migrants is supported by ELCA.
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  • Portrait of an indigenous Maya-Chortí woman, Rosa, near Copán Ruinas, Honduras
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  • Portrait of an indigenous Maya-Chortí woman, Rosa, near Copán Ruinas, Honduras
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  • Portrait of an indigenous Maya-Chortí woman, Rosa, near Copán Ruinas, Honduras
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  • An indigenous Pech woman with a red parasol in Coluco village, Dulce Nombre de Culmí, Olancho, Honduras.
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  • A young woman works picking coffee on a coffee farm in Intibucá, Honduras.
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  • Doña Filomena, a Lenca woman, on the road to CARSBIL in Intibucá. CARSBIL is a certified fairtrade coffee producer in San Nicolás, Intibucá, Honduras.
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  • Doña Filomena, a Lenca woman, on the road to San Nicolás, Intibucá, Honduras.
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  • An indigenous Pech woman in her kitchen, Olancho
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  • Portrait of an indigenous woman, Irma, 19, de El Chilar, Copán, Honduras
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  • A young woman cooking in her kitchen. She lives in a coastal area affected by floods and landslides during the rainy season on the Atlantic coast of Honduras near Trujillo, and takes part in projects supported by CWS to reduce risks and disasters.
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  • Indigenous woman Alberta Guarchaj, Vice-President of the Nahuala coffee coop, stands in the doorway of her home.
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  • Portrait of an indigenous Maya-Chortí woman, Angélica Rodriguez, near Copán Ruinas, Honduras
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  • Alberta Guarchaj, Vice-President of the Nahuala coffee coop in the coop's coffee laboratory. Alberta is part of a women-only group that produce Feminine Coffee.
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  • a girl has ankle bracelets and bare feet to dance
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  • Three women in Panasabasta village, Khurda, Odisha an area where malarial filariasis is endemic.
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  • Iveth, 15: I help my mother with the little shop. With the government programme ‘for one lempira less’ we offer products slightly cheaper than in a lot of shops. I help and study at the same time, I want to study pharmaceutical chemistry at university.
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  • Sandri Lizeth García Herrera, 20, holds a frame of honeycomb before putting it into a centrifuge. CIPAC, Cooperativa Integral de Producción Apicultores de Cuilco, is a Fairtrade-certified honey-producing organisation in Cuilco, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
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  • Iveth, 15: I help my mother with the little shop. With the government programme ‘for one lempira less’ we offer products slightly cheaper than in a lot of shops. I help and study at the same time, I want to study pharmaceutical chemistry at university.
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  • Jesus the Midwife<br />
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María de Jesús Pérez Vásquez<br />
Coalaca, Las Flores, Lempira<br />
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"I’m 92, I was born in 1925. I had three of my own children, two boys and a girl. I spend most of my time in the house nowadays, with my daughter-in-law and grandchildren.<br />
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There’s no one else my age around here. The secret to a long life is to rest enough but not too much, eat as little as a child eats and work hard. I still like to make tortillas, though my fingers are getting stiff now.<br />
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My parents didn’t have money to send me to school, but I learned a few things. I worked as a midwife for 60 years. I delivered a lot of babies, attended a lot of women in birth. Everyone here knows me. Women still bring me little gifts to say thank you. When I walk down the road, most of the people I meet I saw them arrive in this world. I was the first person to hold them.<br />
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My husband was a drunk. He died of a hangover in a field 12 years after we got married. I brought up the children on my own."
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  • Chunguita
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  • Chunguita
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  • Maria Mercedes Gómez, coordinator of the Council of Elders in the Lenca organisation COPINH in Río Blanco, Intibucá.
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  • Maria Mercedes Gómez, coordinator of the Council of Elders in the Lenca organisation COPINH in Río Blanco, Intibucá.
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  • Mercedes Pérez García, Río Blanco, Intibucá. Mercedes is one of the campaigners that stopped the building of a dam on the river Gualquarque in Río Blanco. Berta Cáceres was assassinated for opposing the dam, and several others have been killed in the same place.
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  • Cindy Yohanna Ruíz and Isis Escarlet.<br />
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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 />
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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 />
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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 />
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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 />
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Isis (in pink):<br />
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I went on my own too, no leaving my mother and kids behind, it’s painful to leave. <br />
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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.
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  • Cristi Carina Reyes lives in Tempisque, Langue, Valle, Honduras with her family. Many water wells in the area have dried. This means that people have to walk long distances to collect water. Cristi walks about an hour a day collecting water for her family.
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  • Karol Salazar: "I’m from Choluteca but I live in Tegucigalpa. I work building capacity in the community, particularly on family plots, school plots. We want to run more projects, because they do benefit the community, in their nutrition and independence, but also in building self confidence and good social relationships between people. It’s good to see women become producers of food for their own nutrition, and to sell for an income. We also work on small community projects, helping them to get organised to get improvements in their roads or houses. Communities can do a lot if they get organised and together make a plan for whatever they need. That’s what I do here, helping with those areas of work. Christian Ministries have several programmes in education, that’s where I began working, as a social worker and teacher of sixth grade, and I worked on grants and nurseries, and I worked on a programme to guarantee a nutritious meal at school, because lots of the children here are from very low income families."
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  • Alba Tinglas: I’m from Cocovila, near Palacios in the Mosquitia. I have worked 30 years with the church in Tegucigalpa. I try to get back to the Mosquitia from time to time, to make sure that my children don’t lose a sense of their indigenous roots. World Renew has been supporting, and I hope it continues to support, there is a lot of need here. We have done a lot of useful training here. The big one for us is garden farming, agriculture, but we’ve done training in other things too. We are grateful for these opportunities. We’re ladies, but here we are working hard, producing, teaching, setting a good example. And, when people in the community are needy, we are glad to help out. That’s our aim, to go further, to help people when they are in need.
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  • Maria Sosa of CASM grafts gourmet cocoa to resistant stock. The trees are being used to reforest a watershed in an environmental crisis in Honduras, and the cocoa provides income for the local communities.
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  • Selenia Vanegas, coffee producer with COMSA cooperative in Santiago Puringla, La Paz. Selenia was a migrant and lived in the New York working for six years.
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  • Olga Alvarado, a coffee producer in Intibucá, migrated to the US and worked at Macdonalds in Devon, New Jersey for eight years, scrimping and saving to buy a small plot of farm land and grow coffee. She is a member of the COAQUIL cooperative that is Fairtrade-certified, and the Fairtrade prices are keeping their heads above water as the international coffee market prices are very low. Many of the farmers in her area are selling coffee at a loss of around $50 a sack, the Fairtrade price is giving Olga a profit of around $30 a sack.
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  • A rural kitchen in Intibucá, Honduras
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  • Rosalina Anabela Guarchaj Guarchaj, walks between houses in the Nahuala community.
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  • Maritza Chavería in her kitchen at home on the El Manantial farm, San Benito, Jinotega.
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  • Portraits from Somotillo, Nicaragua. Through the Nicaraguan Lutheran Church, ELCA provides support to innovative projects to help families improve their lives. Improved stoves have been provided, that save on firewood and take smoke out of the kitchen reducing respiratory diseases that have been prevalent.
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  • Policewoman on duty in San Lorenzo, Honduras
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  • Jesus on the Rubbish Dump<br />
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Yolanda Jesús Lozano, Municipal Dump, Rio Abajo, Tegucigalpa<br />
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"I’m a single mother bringing up my three children. I do it with the money I make here on the dump. Mainly with tins and sometimes bottles and other things if there are a lot. I can earn 80 Lempiras a day. It’s dangerous here as they dump waste from the hospital - you can get a used syringe in your foot.<br />
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Two weeks ago they found a head here, half eaten by the vultures. They say they found the body over in Comayaguela."
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  • An indigenous Maya Chortí girl at Sinaí Chimichal, near Copán Ruinas
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  • Jesus the Midwife<br />
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María de Jesús Pérez Vásquez<br />
Coalaca, Las Flores, Lempira<br />
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"I’m 92, I was born in 1925. I had three of my own children, two boys and a girl. I spend most of my time in the house nowadays, with my daughter-in-law and grandchildren.<br />
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There’s no one else my age around here. The secret to a long life is to rest enough but not too much, eat as little as a child eats and work hard. I still like to make tortillas, though my fingers are getting stiff now.<br />
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My parents didn’t have money to send me to school, but I learned a few things. I worked as a midwife for 60 years. I delivered a lot of babies, attended a lot of women in birth. Everyone here knows me. Women still bring me little gifts to say thank you. When I walk down the road, most of the people I meet I saw them arrive in this world. I was the first person to hold them.<br />
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My husband was a drunk. He died of a hangover in a field 12 years after we got married. I brought up the children on my own."
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  • Jesus, Survivor of Domestic Violence<br />
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María de Jesús Gabarette, Tierra Colorada, Lempira<br />
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"My husband died. He hanged himself, here in the house, with a rope. He was a drunk. When he used to get drunk I’d be afraid. He’d be really drunk sometimes and he’d shout at me, telling me off for going to church. Sometimes I’d just leave the house and sleep somewhere else, or I’d sleep with a knife under my pillow. Everyone used to tell me to leave him. Since he’s died, it’s helped me going to the church. My children helped me build this little adobe house.<br />
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He’s been dead seven years now. Lots of women get killed by drunk and violent husbands.<br />
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I’m afraid my kids will waste their lives drinking.<br />
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I make a living by going to Lepaera to buy vegetables and chickens, and I bring them back here to sell. And I’m training to be a midwife. I had my first baby at 24, here in the house, attended by a midwife."
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  • Chunguita
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  • Jesús Lorenzo Martínez, Ojo de Agua, La Paz.<br />
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I don’t know how old I am. I have three girls and a boy. I’m on my own, bringing them up on my own is a struggle, a battle. Six, I had, I had six children but two are dead. Two boys died. They were for God, they weren’t for me, they were for God. One went when he was a month old. The other went when he was one year and four months. Sometimes I grieve. I conform, it’s God’s will. But I am afraid when one gets ill. I can’t get ill or no one will look after them.<br />
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One of the girls is working in San Miguel (El Salvador), may God bless her and look after her and protect her. My kids are like me, they are as big as me now, and they will have to struggle like I’ve struggled.<br />
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Sometimes I sleep with a flower, and I feel like the boys are with me and I feel strong. <br />
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No sé que edad tengo. Tengo tres niñas y un varón. Estoy sóla, criarlos sóla es una lucha, una batalla. Seis, tuve, tuve seis niños pero dos estan muertos. Se me murieron dos varones. Eran para Dios, no eran para mi, eran para Dios. Uno se fue donde él cuando tenía un mes. El otro se fue cuando tenía un año y cuatro meses. A veces me aflijo. Me conformo, es la voluntad de Dios. Pero tengo miedo cuando uno se enferma. No me puedo enfermar yo, nadie más los cuida.<br />
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Una de las niñas esta trabajando en San Miguel (El Salvador), que Dios la bendiga y la cuide y la proteje. Mis niños se parecen conmigo, ya estan igual de grandes como yo y tendrán que luchar como yo he luchado.<br />
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A veces duermo con una flor, y siento que los niños están conmigo y me siento fuerte.
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  • María de Jesús Santos Sánchez, La Paz, Honduras. Her husband was an abusive drunk. She left him and built her own house, with strict discipline and hard work, she brought up her kids and now brings up her grandchildren.
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  • I’m Reina Isabal Calix, I’m a survivor of the massacre of Santa Clara and Horcones. The massacre happened on the 25 June 1975. There was a plan by landowners and military, Coronel Chinchilla. They confused work for the common good with work for communism. We were working for the common good. They prepared to crush us. We were a group of religious people, priests, farmers, women. We were struggling for agrarian reform. All we really wanted was for people to have enough land to plant food for themselves, to have their daily bread, for their children and families. We were united, teachers, poor farmers, young people, students, workers, priests. It was a big struggle, but they wanted to crush it. <br />
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There was a Colombian priest here called Ivan Betancourt. There was also an American priest called Casimiro Zypher. They were both killed too, along with the campesinos and students. <br />
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At that time, speaking about the common good, was like promoting communism. There was a plan, to destroy everything we were doing and slow down the agrarian reform. <br />
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We had a shop, radiofonica school, they killed the person who ran it. We used to train carpenters and mechanics here.<br />
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We planned a march, 5000 people came. They couldn’t stop it. But, the soldiers came in here using students as a cover, it was a trick. Three people died right here, in the centre. <br />
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Others were taken to the prison. Father Casimiro died being tortured during interrogation. Later they took them to a farm, and most were killed there, they threw the bodies down a well. Fourteen people were killed.
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  • Rosalina Dominguez, Río Blanco, Intibucá. Rosalina is part of the Lenca organisation COPINH.
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  • Rosalina Dominguez, Río Blanco, Intibucá. Rosalina is part of the Lenca organisation COPINH.
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  • Cindy Yohanna Ruíz and Isis Escarlet.<br />
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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.
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  • Brenda Paola Molina López, 22, San Pedro Catacamas<br />
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I was in a private university. It was too expensive. I live with my mother, she’s a single mother, we couldn’t afford to carry on with the studies, I couldn’t find a job, there’s a lot of violence here, a lot. So, I decided to go to the US. <br />
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We paid a smuggler, $4,000. <br />
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Saying goodbye to my mum was hard, we’d never been apart before. You know it’s risky, you don’t know if you are going to come back, you are conscious of the risk, of being kidnapped, being raped, being killed. But, there’s nothing here. We don’t all have drinking water, sometimes there’s no water at all. There are people right here who don’t eat three meals a day, who can’t afford to send their kids to school, my neighbour here didn’t send their kids to school last year, couldn’t afford it. If you are lucky to get day work here, as a farm labourer, you might get 100 lempiras a day, maybe 90, depends, and it’s hard work. You can’t do much with 100 Lempiras ($4 USD). <br />
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The truth is that you suffer on the journey, sometimes you walk all night, sometimes there’s not much food, you have to sleep on the floor, and it’s dangerous, you can be kidnapped, killed. They tried to sell one of the young women I was with, to sleep with men, you understand. I lost a lot of weight on the journey, I got really skinny, I didn’t get back to normal until after being in prison.<br />
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I was deported twice, once from Mexico, once from the US. The first time I went I got to Mexico, I was deported back to San Pedro Sula, and then I just went straight back. I got to McAllen, Texas and was caught shortly after I got there. I was imprisoned for eight days and then deported. I didn’t have money to get a lawyer to fight my case, so I came back, I signed the form to be deported. I was in prison with Salvadoreans, Guatemalans, other Hondurans. I was 19. <br />
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Thank God, the LWF has helped me a lot, from the first day I met them. With their help, we�
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  • Marcia Verónica Elvir Romero, 28, madre de cuatro hijos, y esperando el número cinco.<br />
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La idea era esa, llegar a los Estados Unidos. <br />
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Pero cuando íbamos por Mexico, y los Zetas estaban empezando a secuestrar las personas, mejor decidimos venir. Ya estábamos en México, trabajamos allí, para hacer el pasaje, y nos venimos.<br />
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Nos venimos el 22 de diciembre del año pasado, un año ya. Estuvimos allí más de un mes. <br />
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Cuando llegamos, alguien nos dijo del programa.<br />
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Yo ya tenía me salón de belleza. Le digo salón verdad, porque esta en mi salón de estar, aquí en mi casa. <br />
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Me han ayudado con capacitación, y con muebles, sillas, espejos, la mesa para manicure, la silla de manicure. <br />
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He ido a varias capacitaciones, hasta en Tegucigalpa. La semana pasada vino una técnica que contrataron para dar cursos de bellezas, me ha venido a visitar.<br />
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Ya voy a perder algunas reuniones porque ya me toca [dar la luz]. Me dieron reposo, y míreme, trabajando. <br />
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Me dijo la doctora que ya no hay problema que nazca el bebé.<br />
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En México yo no salía, me daba miedo que nos viera la migración o las bandas criminales como son los zetas, no quería que nos secuestraran, o que nos sacaran. La familia de mi esposo tiene un amigo allí que nos dieron donde quedar. Y yo trabajé en un salón de belleza, cortando pelo. Pero no salía, tenía mucho miedo. La verdad es que tuvimos mucha suerte que no nos pasó nada fuerte, como suele pasar.<br />
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Ahora, con el bebé que viene, y con estas capacitaciones y el apoyo de la Federación, siento esperanza, que todo va a salir bien aquí. No deja de ser una lucha, pero ya tenemos algo para ir trabajando.
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  • Cristi Carina Reyes lives in Tempisque, Langue, Valle, Honduras with her family. Many water wells in the area have dried. This means that people have to walk long distances to collect water. Cristi walks about an hour a day collecting water for her family.
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  • Cristi Carina Reyes lives in Tempisque, Langue, Valle, Honduras with her family. Many water wells in the area have dried. This means that people have to walk long distances to collect water. Cristi walks about an hour a day collecting water for her family.
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  • Cristi Carina Reyes lives in Tempisque, Langue, Valle, Honduras with her family. Many water wells in the area have dried. This means that people have to walk long distances to collect water. Cristi walks about an hour a day collecting water for her family.
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  • Maria collects water from a pond on the Choluteca River, also known as the Rio Grande. With the prolonged droughts in this region, because of climate change, the river frequently dries up except for ponds on the river bed.
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  • Maria collects water from a pond on the Choluteca River, also known as the Rio Grande. With the prolonged droughts in this region, because of climate change, the river frequently dries up except for ponds on the river bed.
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  • Wendy Lopez at home in a rural household in Buenos Aires, Santa Barbara, Honduras. Wendy and her family were taking part in a programme on food production and nutrition. The interventions of the programme were strategic, aiming to boost areas of poor nutrition.
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  • Selenia Vanegas, coffee producer with COMSA cooperative in Santiago Puringla, La Paz. Selenia was a migrant and lived in the New York working for six years.
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  • Olga Alvarado, a coffee producer in Intibucá, migrated to the US and worked at Macdonalds in Devon, New Jersey for eight years, scrimping and saving to buy a small plot of farm land and grow coffee. She is a member of the COAQUIL cooperative that is Fairtrade-certified, and the Fairtrade prices are keeping their heads above water as the international coffee market prices are very low. Many of the farmers in her area are selling coffee at a loss of around $50 a sack, the Fairtrade price is giving Olga a profit of around $30 a sack.
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  • Rosa Arely Gútierrez, 29, coffee producer in the COAQUIL cooperative, Quiragüira, Intibucá, Honduras. Rosa's father and brothers migrated to the US looking for employment.
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  • Rosa Arely Gútierrez, 29, coffee producer in the COAQUIL cooperative, Quiragüira, Intibucá, Honduras. Rosa's father and brothers migrated to the US looking for employment.
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  • Sandra Hueso, in charge of cocoa processes at COAGRICSAL, a Fairtrade-certified producer of coffee and cocoa, stands in a nursery for young cocoa trees. The coop is providing lots of support for members who want to diversify into cocoa, as climate change is affecting coffee so badly in the region.
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  • Bharnabem Charda, daughter of a Fairtrade-certified cotton farmer helps irrigate a cotton field in Rapar district, Gujarat, India.<br />
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Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand support cotton producer groups in India. Fairtrade-certified groups benefit from Fairtrade through guaranteed prices for their produce, technical assistance to improve quality and output, and the Fairtrade premium which the producer groups decide what to do with, often using it for education and health care for their members' communities.<br />
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RDFC (formerly Agrocel) is a Fairtrade-certified group of thousands of farmers who grow cotton in the Rapar, Kutch region of Gujarat in western India
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  • María de Jesús Interiano, indigenous Maya-Chortí leader, Copán, Honduras
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  • Jesus the Midwife<br />
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María de Jesús Pérez Vásquez<br />
Coalaca, Las Flores, Lempira<br />
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"I’m 92, I was born in 1925. I had three of my own children, two boys and a girl. I spend most of my time in the house nowadays, with my daughter-in-law and grandchildren.<br />
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There’s no one else my age around here. The secret to a long life is to rest enough but not too much, eat as little as a child eats and work hard. I still like to make tortillas, though my fingers are getting stiff now.<br />
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My parents didn’t have money to send me to school, but I learned a few things. I worked as a midwife for 60 years. I delivered a lot of babies, attended a lot of women in birth. Everyone here knows me. Women still bring me little gifts to say thank you. When I walk down the road, most of the people I meet I saw them arrive in this world. I was the first person to hold them.<br />
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My husband was a drunk. He died of a hangover in a field 12 years after we got married. I brought up the children on my own."
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  • Jesus, Survivor of Domestic Violence<br />
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María de Jesús Gabarette, Tierra Colorada, Lempira<br />
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"My husband died. He hanged himself, here in the house, with a rope. He was a drunk. When he used to get drunk I’d be afraid. He’d be really drunk sometimes and he’d shout at me, telling me off for going to church. Sometimes I’d just leave the house and sleep somewhere else, or I’d sleep with a knife under my pillow. Everyone used to tell me to leave him. Since he’s died, it’s helped me going to the church. My children helped me build this little adobe house.<br />
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He’s been dead seven years now. Lots of women get killed by drunk and violent husbands.<br />
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I’m afraid my kids will waste their lives drinking.<br />
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I make a living by going to Lepaera to buy vegetables and chickens, and I bring them back here to sell. And I’m training to be a midwife. I had my first baby at 24, here in the house, attended by a midwife."
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  • Jesus, Survivor of Domestic Violence<br />
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María de Jesús Gabarette, Tierra Colorada, Lempira<br />
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"My husband died. He hanged himself, here in the house, with a rope. He was a drunk. When he used to get drunk I’d be afraid. He’d be really drunk sometimes and he’d shout at me, telling me off for going to church. Sometimes I’d just leave the house and sleep somewhere else, or I’d sleep with a knife under my pillow. Everyone used to tell me to leave him. Since he’s died, it’s helped me going to the church. My children helped me build this little adobe house.<br />
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He’s been dead seven years now. Lots of women get killed by drunk and violent husbands.<br />
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I’m afraid my kids will waste their lives drinking.<br />
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I make a living by going to Lepaera to buy vegetables and chickens, and I bring them back here to sell. And I’m training to be a midwife. I had my first baby at 24, here in the house, attended by a midwife."
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  • Jesús Lorenzo Martínez, Ojo de Agua, La Paz.<br />
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I don’t know how old I am. I have three girls and a boy. I’m on my own, bringing them up on my own is a struggle, a battle. Six, I had, I had six children but two are dead. Two boys died. They were for God, they weren’t for me, they were for God. One went when he was a month old. The other went when he was one year and four months. Sometimes I grieve. I conform, it’s God’s will. But I am afraid when one gets ill. I can’t get ill or no one will look after them.<br />
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One of the girls is working in San Miguel (El Salvador), may God bless her and look after her and protect her. My kids are like me, they are as big as me now, and they will have to struggle like I’ve struggled.<br />
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Sometimes I sleep with a flower, and I feel like the boys are with me and I feel strong. <br />
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No sé que edad tengo. Tengo tres niñas y un varón. Estoy sóla, criarlos sóla es una lucha, una batalla. Seis, tuve, tuve seis niños pero dos estan muertos. Se me murieron dos varones. Eran para Dios, no eran para mi, eran para Dios. Uno se fue donde él cuando tenía un mes. El otro se fue cuando tenía un año y cuatro meses. A veces me aflijo. Me conformo, es la voluntad de Dios. Pero tengo miedo cuando uno se enferma. No me puedo enfermar yo, nadie más los cuida.<br />
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Una de las niñas esta trabajando en San Miguel (El Salvador), que Dios la bendiga y la cuide y la proteje. Mis niños se parecen conmigo, ya estan igual de grandes como yo y tendrán que luchar como yo he luchado.<br />
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A veces duermo con una flor, y siento que los niños están conmigo y me siento fuerte.
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  • Jesus, the Bereaved Mother. <br />
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Jesús Lorenzo Martínez, Ojo de Agua, La Paz.<br />
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"I don’t know how old I am. I have three girls and a boy. I’m on my own, bringing them up on my own is a struggle, a battle. Six, I had, I had six children but two are dead. Two boys died. They were for God, they weren’t for me, they were for God. One went when he was a month old. The other went when he was one year and four months. Sometimes I grieve. I conform, it’s God’s will. But I am afraid when one gets ill. I can’t get ill or no one will look after them.<br />
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One of the girls is working in San Miguel (El Salvador), may God bless her and look after her and protect her. My kids are like me, they are as big as me now, and they will have to struggle like I’ve struggled.<br />
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Sometimes I sleep with a flower, and I feel like the boys are with me and I feel strong."
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  • María de Jesús Santos Sánchez, La Paz, Honduras. Her husband was an abusive drunk. She left him and built her own house, with strict discipline and hard work, she brought up her kids and now brings up her grandchildren.
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  • waitress at the the famous chicken soup shop on the way to Sesesmil from Copan Ruins.
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  • waitress at the the famous chicken soup shop on the way to Sesesmil from Copan Ruins.
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  • Rosalina Dominguez, Río Blanco, Intibucá. Rosalina is part of the Lenca organisation COPINH.
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  • Mercedes Pérez García, Río Blanco, Intibucá. Mercedes is one of the campaigners that stopped the building of a dam on the river Gualquarque in Río Blanco. Berta Cáceres was assassinated for opposing the dam, and several others have been killed in the same place.
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  • Cindy Cruz Flores, 24. Tenpiscapa, Olancho.<br />
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I was deported.<br />
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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 />
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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 />
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My brother is in the US, he sent money for me to try to get there. He paid $3500, that’s gone.<br />
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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 />
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Among the staff in the detention centres, there are bad people, they enjoy making you suffer.<br />
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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 />
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Women travelling have extra risks. A lot of women are raped, or killed. <br />
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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
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  • Cindy Yohanna Ruíz and Isis Escarlet.<br />
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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 />
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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 />
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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 />
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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 />
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Isis (in pink):<br />
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I went on my own too, no leaving my mother and kids behind, it’s painful to leave. <br />
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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.
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  • Cindy Yohanna Ruíz and Isis Escarlet.<br />
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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 />
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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 />
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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 />
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Isis (in pink):<br />
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I went on my own too, no leaving my mother and kids behind, it’s painful to leave. <br />
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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.
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  • Brenda Paola Molina López, 22, San Pedro Catacamas<br />
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I was in a private university. It was too expensive. I live with my mother, she’s a single mother, we couldn’t afford to carry on with the studies, I couldn’t find a job, there’s a lot of violence here, a lot. So, I decided to go to the US. <br />
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We paid a smuggler, $4,000. <br />
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Saying goodbye to my mum was hard, we’d never been apart before. You know it’s risky, you don’t know if you are going to come back, you are conscious of the risk, of being kidnapped, being raped, being killed. But, there’s nothing here. We don’t all have drinking water, sometimes there’s no water at all. There are people right here who don’t eat three meals a day, who can’t afford to send their kids to school, my neighbour here didn’t send their kids to school last year, couldn’t afford it. If you are lucky to get day work here, as a farm labourer, you might get 100 lempiras a day, maybe 90, depends, and it’s hard work. You can’t do much with 100 Lempiras ($4 USD). <br />
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The truth is that you suffer on the journey, sometimes you walk all night, sometimes there’s not much food, you have to sleep on the floor, and it’s dangerous, you can be kidnapped, killed. They tried to sell one of the young women I was with, to sleep with men, you understand. I lost a lot of weight on the journey, I got really skinny, I didn’t get back to normal until after being in prison.<br />
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I was deported twice, once from Mexico, once from the US. The first time I went I got to Mexico, I was deported back to San Pedro Sula, and then I just went straight back. I got to McAllen, Texas and was caught shortly after I got there. I was imprisoned for eight days and then deported. I didn’t have money to get a lawyer to fight my case, so I came back, I signed the form to be deported. I was in prison with Salvadoreans, Guatemalans, other Hondurans. I was 19. <br />
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Thank God, the LWF has helped me a lot, from the first day I met them. With their help, we�
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  • Suany Castillo, 35, San Pedro Sula<br />
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"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 />
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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 />
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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 />
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CASM [a Mennonite organisation] has helped me, they've helped me a lot.<br />
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The money lender wants the money, he wants
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  • Maria de la Paz Ortiz Caceres lives in Tempisque, Langue, Valle, Honduras with her family. Many water wells in the area have dried up and water levels continue to drop. Maria has lost most of the plants in her garden despite taking good care of them.
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  • Cristi Carina Reyes lives in Tempisque, Langue, Valle, Honduras with her family. Many water wells in the area have dried. This means that people have to walk long distances to collect water. Cristi walks about an hour a day collecting water for her family.
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  • Jennis Tejera, El Tule, Olancho: "We began working together a year ago, with support from World Renew and INFOP. There are twelve women in our group, we got trained to make different types of bread and cake, and biscuits and snacks, new types of baking that we weren’t used to. We built an oven and we bake together once a month, and we do it to sell the produce, and at the moment we are saving the profits as a group, we’ll decide later what to do with the money, maybe at the end of the year. We’ve never had savings before. Some of us also bake at other times, I bake to sell quite frequently on my own now as well. Women in this area often don’t have their own money, the man has the money, but having our own money, and having savings, in this area, where there are no paid jobs, is a big change for us".
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  • Jennis Tejera, El Tule, Olancho: "We began working together a year ago, with support from World Renew and INFOP. There are twelve women in our group, we got trained to make different types of bread and cake, and biscuits and snacks, new types of baking that we weren’t used to. We built an oven and we bake together once a month, and we do it to sell the produce, and at the moment we are saving the profits as a group, we’ll decide later what to do with the money, maybe at the end of the year. We’ve never had savings before. Some of us also bake at other times, I bake to sell quite frequently on my own now as well. Women in this area often don’t have their own money, the man has the money, but having our own money, and having savings, in this area, where there are no paid jobs, is a big change for us".
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  • Evangelina in her kitchen in a rural house in Buenos Aires, Santa Barbara, Honduras. The arrival of a clean drinking water supply to the house will make her life a lot easier she says, as currently she walks up to an hour a day to bring water to her kitchen.
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  • Wendy Lopez lays a table for a family meal in a rural household in Buenos Aires, Santa Barbara, Honduras. Wendy and her family take part in a programme assisted by CWS and partner organisation CASM that focuses on food production and nutrition. The interventions of the programme are strategic and aim to boost areas of poor nutrition.
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  • Marta, coffee quality lab, COMSA
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  • Olga Alvarado, a coffee producer in Intibucá, migrated to the US and worked at Macdonalds in Devon, New Jersey for eight years, scrimping and saving to buy a small plot of farm land and grow coffee. She is a member of the COAQUIL cooperative that is Fairtrade-certified, and the Fairtrade prices are keeping their heads above water as the international coffee market prices are very low. Many of the farmers in her area are selling coffee at a loss of around $50 a sack, the Fairtrade price is giving Olga a profit of around $30 a sack.
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  • Alberta Guarchaj, Vice-President of the Nahuala coffee coop weaves a huipil.
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