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« Reply To This #20 on: April 29, 2011, 02:36:08 PM »


I thought this farmer's eyes looked sad, and the description saying that he will use the loan funds to hire people to "help him combat plagues" reinforced that idea in my mind.  I hope he'll do OK with his farm this year.

Yoel is 27 years old and he lives with his partner, Zaida. They have one son from their relationship, named Jharlim and he is 3 years old. They live together in a house which they own in the community of Villa Quintiarina, an annex to the district of Quimbiri. When Yoel was still an adolescent he worked his parents' land. But 5 years ago he managed to purchase a parcel of land measuring 6 hectares where he cultivates cocoa and coffee. . . . The product in greatest demand is the cocoa beans, and the income earned from these grains is good. He usually works alone but during the harvest he hires farm hands to help him advance in the harvest quickly. This is his first loan with MFP (Kiva Field Partner) and he knows that this support will be a great help in the development of his work. With the loan he will hire farmhands to help him with the harvest and to help him combat against plagues.
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« Reply To This #21 on: April 29, 2011, 04:04:21 PM »

With the loan he will hire farmhands to help him with the harvest and to help him combat against plagues.
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Laugh Actually, the Spanish here says the laborers will help him with the 'desmonte de maleza' which is weeding rather than combating plagues.  However, these loans do often talk about farmers combating 'plagas' which means dealing with insects / pests.  I usually say 'insect infestations' or 'pests' because 'plagues' always conjures up pictures of boils and locusts in my mind for some reason - as I guess it does in yours  Laugh
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« Reply To This #22 on: April 29, 2011, 05:54:04 PM »

Laugh Actually, the Spanish here says the laborers will help him with the 'desmonte de maleza' which is weeding rather than combating plagues.  However, these loans do often talk about farmers combating 'plagas' which means dealing with insects / pests.  I usually say 'insect infestations' or 'pests' because 'plagues' always conjures up pictures of boils and locusts in my mind for some reason - as I guess it does in yours  Laugh
Laugh   Definitely, I thought he must have an outbreak of a fungal disease, or munching insects, that were consuming all his coffee & cacao plants!   Laugh

I guess if his eyes are sad, it's for a more pedestrian reason, like woman trouble, or in-laws, or something!  Glad to know he does not have a Biblical plague on his farm.   Smiley


(This is what I get, for having taken French & Italian in high school and college.  I grew up in a small town in Indiana, and assumed I was not likely to ever meet a Spanish-speaking person.   Embarrassed  Of course I ended up married to a Hispanic man and living in New York, followed by a move to Phoenix!) 
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« Reply To This #23 on: April 29, 2011, 06:28:22 PM »

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consuming all his coffee & cacao plants!

Oh goodness no!  If that happened my eyes would look much, much sadder than his!    Cry   Laugh
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« Reply To This #24 on: April 29, 2011, 06:29:11 PM »

Laugh   Definitely, I thought he must have an outbreak of a fungal disease, or munching insects, that were consuming all his coffee & cacao plants!   Laugh
I guess if his eyes are sad, it's for a more pedestrian reason, like woman trouble, or in-laws, or something!  Glad to know he does not have a Biblical plague on his farm.   Smiley

He has a three year-old son.  I therefore suspect it's lack of sleep you see in those eyes more than anything else Smiley

(This is what I get, for having taken French & Italian in high school and college.  I grew up in a small town in Indiana, and assumed I was not likely to ever meet a Spanish-speaking person.   Embarrassed  Of course I ended up married to a Hispanic man and living in New York, followed by a move to Phoenix!) 


Smiley That's ok, I grew up in a small mining village in the north-east of England.  It was one of 'those' places where there you could count the non-white, non-English families on the fingers of one hand.  One family owned the local Chinese takeaway and the mother of one of the other families contacted my mother, after she received an invite for her twin boys to my brother's 7th birthday party, to ask if it would be ok if their father picked them up after the party... "I'll understand if that's a problem...mumble mumble...people talk, I know..mumble mumble"  My poor mother (who was also an outsider to the village - she came from a town 15 miles away and had only lived there for 10 years at this point!) was somewhat confused and embarrassed as she had absolutely no idea what this lady was trying to say.  It turned out that this woman's husband was (shock, horror!) black and her kids had never had an invite to a birthday party before as a result.  My mother told her in no uncertain terms that if the neighbors had a problem with this they could  ... well, I'd best not repeat what she apparently said they could do at this point because it's not particularly polite but, as you can probably guess, it involved sticking things where they were never meant to be stuck Wink

Oh and I would have loved to have married a Spanish (or Catalan or French) speaker but instead I fell head over heels with a guy from Wales (who didn't even speak Welsh - bah!) and that kind of put paid to that Smiley
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« Reply To This #25 on: May 11, 2011, 11:23:48 PM »


Tomasa is 56 years old, married, and has seven children, six of whom are on their own. The youngest is 17. Tomasa sells corn malt that is used to make chicha, a drink of the Incas. She buys yellow corn in bulk to make the malt. It’s a complete process and she will not give away her secret. [She looks to me like she is not messing around!] She needs this loan to buy more yellow corn.

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« Reply To This #26 on: September 20, 2011, 10:06:19 PM »



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« Reply To This #27 on: October 15, 2011, 06:28:06 AM »



I think Liberto's eyes are fierce, like a tiger's.

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« Reply To This #28 on: April 05, 2012, 01:31:02 PM »


A new Kadet client.
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