Years of Breaking Even Are Over. Meet Manuel.

A smiling man in a hat and glasses kneels on a black tarp in a field, holding a ripe papaya. A large harvest of many green and yellow papayas is spread out on the tarp in front of him.

After nearly 20 years of facing the same economic challenges over and over again, rural farmer Manuel Figeroa was ready to turn the page and to start a new chapter in his family’s story. Before partnering with Amigos for Christ, Manuel grew a variety of traditional crops such as corn, rice, and sesame seeds on […]