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Doña María is 46 years of age and earns her living in farming, specializing in papaya cultivation. She completed primary school, she is married, and she and her husband have four children. Two of them have technical diplomas in agriculture, and they contribute their assistance and maintenance to the crops. The two younger children go to school in their community's primary school. Her husband and her older children are the ones involved full-time, while she is at home preparing the food and getting the children ready for school. Later, she goes to the fields to help her children and her husband in the lighter work. She has more than six years experience in this business, and she sells weekly to different buyers who come to the area. Doña Maria also grows staple grains on a small scale. Her papaya crops are located in the same community, approximately two kilometers from her house; she travels to them in a vehicle.
Her goals, hopes, and dreams include the following: to continue improving her family's quality of life and their home; to continue growing a variety of produce—to avoid depending on one single crop—on their land, which they fortunately own and for which they give thanks to God; and to support her younger children in their studies so that they can graduate like their siblings and contribute new business ideas to the household.
Doña María is requesting a loan from the COMIXMUL communal bank for the purchase of agricultural supplies to support her papaya crops in order to obtain an excellent harvest and excellent production.
Translated from Spanish by Kiva volunteer Holly Torpey. View original language description.
