Maria Natividad works “en la huerta” in the small familial town of San Ramon. As we gathered around her home to ask her questions for our Christmas census, her kids slowly popped their heads out of the windows and doors, curious to see the commotion.
Maria smiled as she saw them, but didn’t interrupt her replies. Maria is a single mother with four kids.
She shares land in the community she lives in, and works in her “huerta” (small garden), growing anything from plantains, to yucca, or papayas. She works hard to send her kids to school, though she doesn’t have much money to send them. If she has crops to sell, she’ll take them to the market on the weekends.
Plantains might go for $7 a bundle, and the papaya might bring $0.50 per fruit. Working “en la huerta,” Maria might make $20 a week. But she says she’ll never stop trying to give her kids an education.
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