Vote for the Photo of the Month: July 2022

Our monthly photo series highlights the beauty and emotion in the lives of our clients around the world.

TechnoServe’s work with people fighting poverty around the world is full of striking stories and images. Each month, we share a few of our favorite photos from the everyday beauty of our clients’ journeys towards better incomes and better futures.

Vote for your favorite below.

Photo 1

Kelavati Devi and Manju Sankaram display their guar beans after threshing the crop in their shared farm near Bikaner, India. Learning how to cultivate this drought-resistant crop and other nutritious food for their family is helping many Indian farmers achieve a new sense of independence.

Photo 2

In southwestern Ethiopia, over 100 coffee farmers banded together to form a cooperative. Together with TechnoServe, they took their coffee from notoriously low-quality to being named the “Best in Africa.”–a story NPR News called “the Cinderella of Coffee”

Photo 3

Three women in the San Martín region of Peru show off cacao pods from their farms. Once a hotspot of narcotrafficking, alternative crops like coffee and cacao are now transforming residents’ lives for the better.