Vote for Photo of the Month: December 2025
Our monthly photo series highlights the beauty and emotion in the lives of our clients around the world. This month, we're celebrating the skills, confidence, and connections that TechnoServe clients use to build sustainable pathways out of poverty.
As 2025 winds down, we hope you learned new skills to improve your future, gained more confidence in your abilities, and forged new connections to open new opportunities—much the same way as TechnoServe clients around the world.
The selection of photos this December captures the community that emerges from learning together as young high school students gain hands-on experience growing coffee in Puerto Rico. You can see the radiant joy of an entrepreneur in Tanzania, secure in her ability to earn money that helps her live with dignity. And faces wreathed in smiles as farmer and TechnoServe trainer shake hands.
TechnoServe believes that everyone deserves the opportunity to build a better life. Thanks to your support, we are changing market systems in low-income countries so that hardworking people break free from poverty for good.
PHOTO 1: Skills
Meet a group of students from Escuela Prof. Rafael Alicea Vazquez in Puerto Rico. These youth were part of a TechnoServe-led coffee agronomy program at high schools around the island. Over 10 modules, students learned coffee cultivation techniques and agricultural practices, combining classroom learning with hands-on experience. More than 900 students across 14 schools gained new skills and a deeper appreciation for farming as a viable career, a critical issue on an island with a declining and aging farmer population.
PHOTO 2: Confidence
If you ask for Mama Princess around Sarafina Market in Dodoma, Tanzania, you’ll be led to a bright and clean tailoring shop owned by Rehema Athaman Mwinyijuma. Her confidence in dealing with customers and creating beautiful clothes is clear to see. Through TechnoServe, Rehema learned core business skills and gained access to a mobile savings account. This gave her greater control of her hard-earned money and the confidence to invest in her shop. From small markets in Tanzania to villages in India and farms in Mexico, when women gain confidence in their potential, they improve the lives of their families and communities.
PHOTO 3: Connections
Aura Rosa Morales (right), a pineapple farmer, exchanges grins and a warm handshake with TechnoServe business advisor Manuel Figueroa in Nueva Guinea, Nicaragua. TechnoServe helps farmers like Aura organize into cooperatives and connect to local buyers and international suppliers. Along with new business skills, farmers also learn to increase productivity and care for their land and water resources. Creating strong connections within the community and the supply chain helps farmers to thrive.