In the agricultural sector, and particularly in the coffee sector, women are heavily involved in the farms, making up more than 70% of the workforce in the fields, harvesting, sorting the beans... Unfortunately, women's work is often overshadowed by a strong tendency to idealise men's work.
The women of the San Juan and Aljiri cooperatives in Caranavi have come together to create the Matriarcas project. Twenty of them produce coffee in complete autonomy.
Together they want to defend the role of women in Bolivia, their freedom, and improve their income and the quality of their work. The project also aims to provide training to women in the region to help them become more self-sufficient.
