Building Beyond the Harvest
June 25, 2026
After Tropical Storm Sara impacted southern Honduras in late 2024, Doña Concepción feared she would not survive the next heavy rain. As a 71-year-old widow and mother of three, she […]
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June 25, 2026
After Tropical Storm Sara impacted southern Honduras in late 2024, Doña Concepción feared she would not survive the next heavy rain. As a 71-year-old widow and mother of three, she […]
For Rosibel, farming in her community was always very difficult. It required a lot of physical effort with unreliable results. Everything changed when she began participating in the “We Are […]
June 3, 2026
At the invitation of Andrea and James Mayer of Yolo’s Frate Sole Olive Farm, nine Davis Community Church volunteers helped prune dozens of olive trees on May 9, beginning a […]
June 2, 2026
Mary grew up in a humble but supportive home where her parents worked hard to educate their children. After completing secondary school in 2021, Mary faced uncertainty about her future. […]
Elia lives with his wife and six children in Hanang District where he farms an acre and a half. That is, he farms all of it now. Previously, a quarter […]
For many years, the farmer members of the Soloti Cooperative faced challenges of heavy reliance on manual labor and limited access to modern farming equipment. This meant that they weren’t […]
As an agricultural technician for the Honduras Macuelizo program’s local partner, Mennonite Social Action Commission (CASM), Orfelina is helping families in rural Honduras transform their communities. Every morning before she […]
May 22, 2026
Aline is a smallholder farmer and mother of four. Her family often faced food shortages, especially during the lean season. Their meals mainly consisted of cassava and maize – foods […]
May 15, 2026
Alpona was married at a very young age. Her husband, Babul, worked as a day laborer on others’ land, but his irregular income was insufficient to meet the family’s food […]
May 7, 2026
Justine and her husband have six sons and one daughter. Justine depends on farming to support her household and pay her kids’ school fees. She recalls a time not too […]