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Meet Maria from
Colombia.
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Hi, my name is Maria.I am six years old and live in a country called Colombia in Latin America.
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I live with my grandparents, auntie and cousins. Our house is on our coffee farm high up inthe mountains.
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Our house and coffee farm is way up high in the hills. Can you spot my grandad and aunty in this picture?
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Here I am with my grandma helping to make lunch.
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By selling coffee beans we earn money to buy things we need, like water and electricity. Here is a coffee branch on our farm.
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Growing coffee can be a difficult way to earn money though. Sometimes bad weather or bugs mean the coffee plants cannot grow.
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Sometimes we find it really hard to get a good price for our coffee beans because so many other farmers are trying to sell their coffee beans at the same time.
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With the help of CAFOD, my grandparents and other farmers joined together to make a group called Eurocafé. Here we can share our business problems and learn from each other.
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Things have really changed since we joined Eurocafe.
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With the help of CAFOD we are learning new skills. We are more confident in our business, and have learnt new ways to look after our coffee.
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Now that we are part of Eurocafe we can get a fair price for our coffee. We are able to buy things we need, like food and books for school.
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We are really proud to be part of a coffee community – we work hard and have made good friends. Being part of Eurocafe means we can look forward to the future.
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I want to be a policewoman when I grow up. One day I would like to go to a different city and see what it’s like!
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