Description
The participating women farmers have reported a multitude of positive changes in their lives and communities since joining Café Femenino in 2009. For them, the most valuable change is their successful creation of a cooperative space in which all women have educational opportunities and the chance to have their voices, ideas, and opinions heard at the highest level of leadership. With access to coffee industry training workshops, computer and accounting education, and community health programs, these women are also able to plan a better future for their families, communities, and themselves. The changes these women have fought for have taken them far from their previous societal positions of inferiority and subjugation. Beginning from a place of low self-esteem and self-worth, the women of the Café Femenino Bolivia Program now view themselves as business women in charge of their own destiny.
