Quetzaltenango, Palestina, Guatemala.
September 2011, Orelia fifty-one years old, bringing food for the cows, she also grows corn and sells cheese and milk, she has twelve children.
Orelia got a microcredit from Cedepem three years ago (El Centro Experimental para el Desarrollo de la Peque–a y Mediana Empresa Rural).
The communal bank model involves groups of women who meet regularly and guarantee each other's loans. If one member of the bank cannot pay the others must pay for her. The bank members meet at neighborhood centers to repay their loans and to receive ongoing training in business development.
Quetzaltenango, Pueblo Nuevo, Guatemala.
September 2011
Noelia Magali Escobar (left) is forty-one years old. She makes artisanal sausages with her friend Liliam Castjo, thirty-four years old. They has also a greenhouse with tomatoes. She had a microcredit three years ago. She was trained and got a microcredit from Cedepem four years ago.
Quetzaltenango, Pueblo Nuevo, Guatemala.
September 2011
Noelia Magali Escobar (left) is forty-one years old. She makes artisanal sausages with her friend Liliam Castjo, thirty-four years old. They has also a greenhouse with tomatoes. She had a microcredit three years ago. She was trained and got a microcredit from Cedepem four years ago.
Quetzaltenango, La Cumbre de Palestina, Guatemala.
September 2011
Sara Cifuentes, thirty-eight years old, is giving food to the chicken. She also grows potatoes, has a cow and owns a small shop. She got trained and got a microcredit from Cedepem three years ago (El Centro Experimental para el Desarrollo de la Peque–a y Mediana Empresa Rural).
The communal bank model involves groups of women who meet regularly and guarantee
each other's loans. If one member of the bank cannot pay the others must pay for her. The bank members meet at neighborhood centers to repay their loans and to receive ongoing training in business development.
Quetzaltenango, San Cristobal, Guatemala.
September 2011
Santos Tecun Monzon is thirty-seven years old. She had a microcredit four years ago to buy cows. Santos has eight children and she was trained and got a microcredit from Cedepem since four years ago.
Quetzaltenango, San Cristobal, Guatemala.
September 2011
Santos Tecun Monzon is thirty-seven years old and she has had a microcredit for four years. She has cows. Santos has eight children and she has been trained and got her microcredit from Cedepem four years ago.
Quetzaltenango, Aldea Vasca, Guatemala.
September 2011
Celestina Carmen Aguilar with her son, Celestina, had a microcredit thirteen years ago. Along with Lucia Teodora they are weaving to make typical clothes. Celestina is the secretary of the group.
Celestina and Teodora got trained and their microcredit loan from Cedepem four years ago.
Quetzaltenango, Aldea Vasca, Guatemala.
September 2011
Pilar Antonia (right) is forty-six years old and her friend Maria Cecilia, forty-seven years old. They have had a microcredit for thirteen years ago, to make weaving for typical clothes. Pilar got a microcredit from Cedepem four years ago.
Quetzaltenango, Aldea Vasca, Guatemala.
September 2011
Pilar Antonia (center) is forty-six years old and she had a microcredit thirteen years ago. They make weaving to make typical clothes.
Pilar got a microcredit from Cedepem four years ago.
Quetzaltenango, Aldea Vasca, Guatemala.
September 2011
The children of Lucia Teodora at home. She got trained and got her microcredit from Cedepem four years ago.
Quetzaltenango, Aldea Vasca, Guatemala.
September 2011
Gusta Rosario had a microcredit thirteen years ago and she is weaving to make typical clothes. Pilar got a microcredit from Cedepem since four years ago.
Quetzaltenango, Aldea Vasca, Guatemala.
September 2011
A kid playing with a hammock.
Quetzaltenango, Palestina, Guatemala.
September 2011
Tomasa Maria picking up dry clothes.
She is sixty years old, she has pigs and cows which she kills herself in order to sell them at the meat market.
Tomasa got her microcredit from Cedepem three years ago (El Centro Experimental para el Desarrollo de la Peque–a y Mediana Empresa Rural).
The communal bank model involves groups of women who meet regularly and guarantee
each other's loans. If one member of the bank cannot pay the others must pay for her. The bank members meet at neighborhood centers to repay their loans and to receive ongoing training in business development.
Quetzaltenango, Palestina, Guatemala.
September 2011
Tomasa Maria, sixty years old, has pigs and cows. She kills them by herself and, then, she sells the meat at the market. Tomasa got a microcredit from Cedepem three years ago.
Quetzaltenango, Aldea Vasca, Guatemala.
September 2011
The daughter of Lucia Teodora about to have lunch.
Lucia got trained and got a microcredit from Cedepem since four years ago (El Centro Experimental para el Desarrollo de la Peque–a y Mediana Empresa Rural).
Quetzaltenango, Palestina, Guatemala.
September 2011
Orelia fifty-one years old, talking on the phone. She has cows, she grows corn and she also sells cheese and milk. She has twelve children.
Orelia got a microcredit from Cedepem three years ago (El Centro Experimental para el Desarrollo de la Peque–a y Mediana Empresa Rural).
The communal bank model involves groups of women who meet regularly and guarantee
each other's loans. If one member of the bank cannot pay the others must pay for her. The bank members meet at neighborhood centers to repay their loans and to receive ongoing training in business development.
Quetzaltenango, Palestina, Guatemala.
September 2011
View of Palestina in the fog.
Quetzaltenango, Palestina, Guatemala.
September 2011
Elvira Rebeca Salvatierra, twenty-nine years old, working with her son. Elvira has grown potatoes for the last four years thanks to a microcredit from Cedepem.
Quetzaltenango, Palestina, Guatemala.
September 2011
Elvira Rebeca Salvatierra, twenty-nine years old, spraying the plants, she lives with her husband manuel Lopez and her son. Elvira has grows potatoes for the last four years thanks to a microcredit from Cedepem.
Quetzaltenango, Palestina, Guatemala.
September 2011
Elvira Rebeca Salvatierra, twenty-nine years old, spraying the plants. She lives with her husband manuel Lopez and her son. Elvira has grown potatoes since four years ago thanks to a microcredit from Cedepem.
Quetzaltenango, Palestina, Guatemala.
September 2011
Elvira Rebeca Salvatierra, twenty-nine years old, at the shop with her son. Elvira grows potatoes for four years thanks to a microcredit from Cedepem.
Quetzaltenango, Palestina, Guatemala.
September 2011
Leticia Lopez Cordoba, forty-two years old, is the president of the group "Las Carmelitas".
Leticia has livestock, pigs, cows, chicken. She also grows corn and potatoes. Leticia is also the coordinator of the municipal office of women.
She had accessed to a microcredit project from Cedepem four years ago.
Quetzaltenango, San Bartolo, Aguas Calientes, Guatemala.
September 2011
Elvira Perez is forty-two years old she had a microcredit seven years ago, she grows corn and has cows, sheep, chickens and pigs. Elvira got a microcredit from Cedepem since four years ago (El Centro Experimental para el Desarrollo de la Peque–a y Mediana Empresa Rural).
The communal bank model involves groups of women who meet regularly and guarantee each other's loans. If one member of the bank cannot pay the others must pay for her. The bank members meet at neighborhood centers to repay their loans and to receive ongoing training in business development.
Quetzaltenango, San Bartolo, Aguas Calientes, Guatemala.
September 2011
Luisa Pojoi is sixty-seven years old and she got a microcredit eight years ago to grow corn and sheeps.
Luisa got a microcredit from Cedepem four years ago.
Quetzaltenango, Palestina, Guatemala.
September 2011
A man having a nap.
