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Veronica is a 27-year-old indigenous woman from Nuevo San Miguel, Mexico. She is the mother of 5 children and the wife of Juan. Veronica has been working with Agros since the very beginning of 2004, and her family has received several enterprise loans from Agros to fund different initiatives such as a small weaving business and an irrigation system. Juan and Veronica also received a loan from Agros to start a nixtamal mill to make tortillas, which allows Juan to be closer to his family.

Veronica has developed great weaving skills, and she is very excited working with other women in the productive projects facilitated by Agros. While Veronica hardly speaks any Spanish, she manages to share her weaving skills with other women, and has also created space in her backyard to start a collective bird-breeding project with the rest of the women. This bird farm will provide eggs and meat for local consumption and trade.

Veronica’s fellow workers describe her as a quiet and analytic woman who is eager and able to share her knowledge with everyone. For them, Veronica is an example of empowerment and participation.

Veronica comments:

“I am very proud of being the mother of my children — I have beautiful children.  I’ve learned to support myself working with my own hands; surely Agros has supported me.  It is because of Agros that I have made it through.  Thank God that there is an organization like Agros that teaches us to work and not to wait.”