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How We Get to Work

Where we live makes a huge difference in our commuting choices - but not always in the ways you'd think.

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When you think of your commute into the office, you may not think of using an animal to get there. But for some of TechnoServe’s staff members around the world (roughly 95% of whom are from the country where they work), traveling to work is an adventure in itself. Where we live makes a huge difference in our commuting choices — but not always in the ways you’d think.

Since 1976, TechnoServe has been helping smallholder farmers and entrepreneurs in Nicaragua access formal markets, improve crop and product quality, manage businesses, and boost their incomes.

This work wouldn’t be possible without our dedicated staff, who sometimes brave surprising obstacles to reach our clients in remote parts of the country. Here are a few snapshots of TechnoServe staff visiting clients as part of a larger effort to improve farmer incomes in Latin America through better coffee production.

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TechnoServe’s Yasmina Muñoz Hernández rides a mule to access parts of a client’s farm in order to review improvements to his coffee wet mill equipment. (Santa Teresa community, Municipality of Bocay, northern Nicaragua.)
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Tatiana Cruz Mercado isn’t afraid of a little mud as she drives to remote farmer trainings on a motorbike. (El Golfo community, municipality of El Cuá, northern Nicaragua.)
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It’s an uphill battle for Gebey Joel Orozco, who visits coffee farmers via unpaved roads after a rainstorm. (El Diamante community, Municipality of Wiwilí, northern Nicaragua.)
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Miriam Rizo Sanchez uses a makeshift raft to cross a small, shallow river for a farmers’ group training visit. (San Antonio de Quininowas community, Nicaragua.)

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