Peru, Pinchollo, Distrito Cabanaconde, Chibai.
September 2011.
Betty with her son Bryan bringing back the sheep back to their home.
Betty´s husband dies two years ago, he was a musician and an alcoholic.
Betty has now access to microcredit and she grows corn, lima beans and has sheep.
Betty also makes artisanal figures to sell to the tourists. She lives alone with her son Bryan, her dream is to own a house of her own one day.
Betty works all day long because it helps her not to think about her husband, "I don´t feel sad when Im busy".
Peru, Pinchollo, Distrito Cabanaconde, Chibai.
September 2011.
Betty with her son Bryan moving her sheep to another place.
Betty's husband dies two years ago, he was a musician and an alcoholic.
Betty has now access to microcredit and she grows corn, lima beans and has sheep.
Betty also makes artisanal figures to sell to the tourists. She lives alone with her son Bryan, her dream is to own a house of her own one day.
Betty works all day long because it helps her not to think about her husband, "I don't feel sad when Im busy".
Betty with her son Bryan on her way to pick up her sheep.
Portrait of Betty with her son Bryan (right) and her mother also with her son.
Betty with her son Bryan at home.
Bryan, Betty's son at home.
The mother of Betty cleaning wheat.
Betty picking up wood to be able to make a fire to cook.
Betty walking at the mountain picking up wood to be able to make a fire to cook.
Indigenous women get together to pay their microcredit monthly fee.
Peru, Chibai.
September 2011.
Indigenous women get together to pay their microcredit monthly fee.
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.
Peru, Chibai.
September 2011.
Mamani de Soria Alejandrina, an indigenous woman receiving a Microcredit at Fondesurco a Regional Development Fund and rural credit bank.
Peru, Media Luna, Distrito Cabanaconde, Chibai.
September 2011.
Melania with her son Hector Hugo at the back of the public school, where she has a cow and a donkey eating the grass.
Melania Jimenez Lupaca is 50 years old, she has four daughters and one son, Hector Hugo.
Melania is a single mother and since 2010 she has access to microcredit, she grows potatoes and corn, she also has cattle and sheep.
Melania with her cow and Gringo (dog) walking on their land where they will grow potatoes very soon.
Hector Hugo jumps to get a flower from a tree, at the back a tractor preparing the soil to grow potatoes on his mother´s land.
Melania with her son Hector Hugo and Gringo (dog) walking on their land where they will grow potatoes very soon.
Melania with her son Hector Hugo and Gringo (dog) sitting on their land where they will grow potatoes very soon.
Peru, Media Luna, Distrito Cabanaconde, Chibai.
September 2011.
Hector Hugo and his mother Melania watching a tractor preparing the soil to grow potatoes on their mother´s land.
Melania Jimenez Lupaca is 50 years old, she has four daugthers and one son, Hector Hugo.
Melania is a single mother and since 2010 she has access to microcredit, she grows potatoes and corn, she also has cattle and sheep.
A tractor preparing the soil to grow potatoes on Melania's land.
Melania's friends and neighbours are helping her to plant the potato seeds in her land.
Melania at the back of the public school, where she has a cow and a donkey eating the grass.
Peru, Sibayo, Chibai.
September 2011.
Alpacas from Elva.
Elva Carina is twenty years old and she has one son, Yahir.
Elva has access to Microcredit since two years ago, she has alpacas and cattle.
Elva also has a house where she rents a room to tourists so they can experience a bit of the real way of living in Sibayo.
Peru, Sibayo, Chibai.
September 2011.
Elva Carina is twenty years old and she has one son, Yahir.
Elva has access to Microcredit since two years ago, she has alpacas and cattle.
Elva also has a house where she rents a room to tourists so they can experience a bit of the real way of living in Sibayo.
Peru, Tres Estancias, Chibai.
September 2011.
Eufenia in the early morning visiting her alpacas. She pays a herdsman to live with the alpacas and to take them out to the mountain to eat and to take care of them.
Eufenia Begaso is thirty-three years old and has access to microcredit since ten years ago.
Eufenia lives with her three sons and her husband, she owns Alpacas and sheep.
Eufenia in the early morning visiting her alpacas.
