I had the blessing of getting to know Doña Lola, a leader in the community where Community Health Evangelism is working, is
seen here second from the left. For many organizations servant leadership is the model – Doña Lola simply lives it. She has gathered younger women together to serve their community as well, nurturing them, and training them to be future leaders. Her generation grew up without the opportunity to learn to read and write: the younger women taught them. In the community’s interactions with other entities, such as local government, the younger women help with the technology involved in communication, and presentation of projects for improving services to
the community.

Doña Lola was instrumental in drawing up property lines when the community of Santa Teresa was established. She was a leader in establishing the women’s coffee cooperative, which has been able to save for, and purchase a coffee roaster. They sell a delicious coffee with complex flavours, grown in the luxurious shade of enormous ceiba and guanacaste trees, roasted in the roaster they saved for and bought themselves. The women have a savings club, with a
revolving fund. Photo1:Doña Lola presenting part of their reproduction of chickens.

Photo2 : Doña Lola with medicinal plants for your home

Photo 3: Doña Lola welcoming conference (Samaritans Purse, Canada, Agro-ecology 2024) participants
to the community, alongside Lea, who accompanied us as we visited
familes, and saw their gardens, pigs, and chickens.