Adding to basket
The community where the Mujeres Mazahuas group lives is a community with indigenous roots, full of history, festivals and tradition. The cuisine is characterized by its delicious tamales, chicken, red and green moles, rice, and pulque, a traditional drink made from maguey. As the years go by, many customs are being lost. Fortunately, there are also persons interested in rescuing all of that history.
The group is made up of four members. They are very hardworking and enterprising people who for several years have had economic activities to improve their living conditions. Juana, or Juanita, as people call her, is serious and also very responsible. She is 30 years old and married to Arturo and over the years has had a family with three children who are in school. While her husband works as a laborer in construction of houses or in the fields, Juanita has a corn mill. Every morning she gets up at 5:00 am to start her service for people in her community. In this place, like in many other parts of Mexico, people make tortillas by hand, and to do that it is necessary to prepare the corn in a mill like Juanita's. “Because of the good clientele with the mill, I decided to start selling groceries a month ago”. That is how now she has two sources of income. Juanita is very grateful to KIVA and VisionFund Mexico because thanks to the loans, she has been able to start her grocery store. With the new loan, she will buy grocery products such as milk, eggs, bread, sugar, beverages, and canned products, items that sell the most. With her income, Juanita has the possibility of paying for some household expenses and for her children's education. She dreams of having a great grocery store where she can offer a wide variety of merchandise.
The other members of the group will invest in her businesses: Miguel and Claudia will invest in their sheep and Domitila will buy more grocery products.
*The photo was taken on the stairs of the kiosk of the town where the members live. Juanita is wearing a brown jacket.*
In this group: Domitila, Claudia, Miguel, Juana
Translated from Spanish by Kiva volunteer Ellen Donohue. View original language description.
