Belén, Tocamacho

Casas en Tocamacho / Houses, Tocamacho

Escuela Tocamacho / School, Tocamacho

Recogiendo frutas / Trees in the village provide edible fruit

The school provides a place to meet for village and farm business.

Women in Belén have a variety of small income-producing endeavors, like this home pastry chef.

Extensionists work with men and also with women, who manage small enterprises as well as truck gardens.

Tomatoes aren’t traditional crops in this region. But abundant sun, along with a plan for preventing too much rain from rotting the roots, allows them to thrive.

Lumbermen bring a portable saw and guides to a remote forest spot hours away by burro. There they cut trees into logs and logs into planks that can be brought down the mountain on the burro’s back.