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.
