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Yolanda (second from the left in the photograph, wearing a brown shirt) is a 19-year-old woman, she is single and she lives with her parents in a community of Xojola, and she has a 3-year-old son.
Yolanda, in spite of being very young, already has a family which she has to support. She got together with her husband at a very young age. Yolanda loves her family very much. To obtain her income, she works in banana production, as she lives in a fertile area and produces good bananas. She has this occupation because her whole family has the same occupation. Yolanda has been producing this for the last 5 years. She has planted banana trees that needs maintenance, but one of the limitations is that she does not have enough capital to do it, so she has organized a group of people who also work in the same occupation, to ask for a loan which will be used to purchase fertilizers and to pay the workers.
Yolanda’s dream is to be able to get this loan to keep expanding her banana crops.
In this group: Yolanda, Isabel, María Concepción, María Susana, Juana, Dorotea, Rebeca, Elena
Translated from Spanish by Kiva volunteer Mariana Orozco. View original language description.
