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Joya Shima Islam
Family farm, cocoa and maize
- 🇮🇳 Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Beacon Growers Co-op
- Since 2007
- English, Spanish
I farm cocoa near Varanasi. The land was my family's before me and I hope it will be someone's after me.
I teach local school groups about where food comes from. I bake for the whole street at New Year.
It has been a good run and I'm grateful for all of it.
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Some years are hard. The good ones make up for it.
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What gifts mean to Joya: Any gift will help me fix the irrigation before the dry months.
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You helped us when our harvest failed in 2021. Greetings from Aurora.
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