This May, We welcome Exolina Aldana, a Fair Trade coffee producer from Nicaragua and a key role in two cooperatives in the Global South. President of the Augusto César Sandino co-operative and delegate at the second-tier co-operative CECOCAFEN, with a series of activities supported by Terrassa City Council.
From the role of women in coffee production to Fair Trade and responsible consumption
Exolina will offer us her vision and accompany us on one of the most important dates in our calendar: World Fair Trade Day.
To this end, it will take part in various activities with public institutions, educational centres and other entities to raise awareness about the benefits of consuming Fairtrade certified products for the people who produce them.
These will include discussions with students about Fair Trade and responsible consumptionThe event will include discussions on agro-ecology and territory, and conversations around a cup in which she will give voice to her own experience to talk about the role of women in coffee production.
We will also discuss the development of current international cooperation projects with the Augusto César Sandino cooperative, which began in conjunction with AlterNativa3 and Terrassa City Council and now operate independently. Among other issues of equal social relevance, these projects focus on the empowerment of women, the defence of the environment, curbing climate change, scholarships for students and studies that promote the digital development of young people and women in the community.
A relevant figure in the community
Exolina backs up all these activities and conversations with her experiences, as she is a relevant figure in her community for having become a person in positions of responsibility as a woman and a mother in a mostly male world.
After leaving to pursue her secondary education, she returned to work and activate different areas of the production cooperative of which she is now president. Her first steps in the movement came, in fact, with a university scholarship that allowed her to learn more about the work of Augusto César Sandino.
With a degree in Accounting from the University of Matagalpa and a diploma in gender leadership and climate change from the Latin American and Caribbean Coordinator of Small Producers and Fair Trade Workers (CLAC), she has carried out different tasks before becoming president, and the experience has led her to be increasingly committed to education for youth and women in the community, gender development and women's empowerment.
Do you want to join this international movement to protect and defend responsible consumption?
We encourage you to participate in the activities that await you this month of May and to make changes in your consumption habits with products like our Fair Trade coffee from Nicaragua.
- 09-05-24
