Women lead development in Jarabacoa
Esperanza Marte Victoriano is an everyday heroine. With her hands, her ideas and her sweat, she has fought the worst type of tyrrany: Poverty. Together with other women from Los Calabazos in Jarabacoa, she planted the seeds of a project, and little by little, built an eco-tourism venture, a hydroelectric plant and an aqueduct that benefits the whole community. “Opening the road” is how the rural folk say it, as green-eyed Esperanza shows the way to Canadian, German, US and other foreign tourists. Community leaders told Listin Diario reporters that, “in the month of August, we did not have a single hour with an empty room. The little cabins were full with groups from England”. In a community where the people pay just 100 pesos a month for 24- hour electricity, the 365 inhabitants of Los Calabazos do not have to endure blackouts or pay fines from the very high [...]
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