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...months each year as seasonal migrant labourers on the Pacific Coast, they also no longer even think about it. Why this change in her family's fortunes? The profits she had made by starting a small retail store in her village had been wisely invested in her family, who ate better, saved a little and could now stay together throughout the year.
She did this through training from K'aslemal--a Guatemalan human rights non-governmental organization (NGO)--and a small seed capital grant from the Trickle Up Program. Rosa is one of an estimated 250,000 of the poorest families, small landowners or landless, who in 1999 had to migrate to work on plantations in southern Guatemala or Mexico, prior to her access to micro-finance services through which she started her successful business.
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