First day as an En Vía photography volunteer

By photographer Payton Haynes.  Picking garlic in Abasolo I’m Payton from Atlanta, Georgia. Because of my fervor for farming, I was lured to Oaxaca by its agricultural splendor and the magical foods that come from this place. I was called to En Vía by its intimate connections with people who call agriculture a way of…

A woman of independent means

Feisty and funny, Eulalia Florina Ruíz Morales is unusual in Teotitlán: a woman in her sixties who owns her own land and house and supports herself entirely on her own earnings. As the oldest daughter in her family, she took care of her parents and never married; in turn they left her the inheritance of…

“Do you have one in blue?” En Vía’s ‘English for your business’ program

by Sylvia Hines, Communications Intern "Do you have one in blue?" "Can I wash this?" Not easy questions to answer if you speak fluent Zapotec and Spanish but not much English. Many of our entrepreneurs find that their clients - who arrive from all over the world - have little Spanish and really want all…

Dreams and challenges: América’s story

by Sylvia Hines, Communications Intern I met América Antonio José amongst the succulents, roses and many other plants in the beautiful garden centre that she has created in the yard in front of her house.  Almost the first thing she said to me (after the warmest of greetings) was that for her En Vía has…

‘A delight!’ Teaching English with En Via

by Sylvia Hines, Communications Intern The blue is startling.  The sky is the purest, brightest blue and so is the municipal building of the community of San Jerónimo Tlacochahuaya, where En Vía is holding its English classes.  At one end of the corridor Daniel is trying to guess what a drawing represents (is that really…