Stacked Coffee Sacks at La Voz Cooperative, San Juan La Laguna
Taken March 2020
La Voz Que Clama en el Desierto is a coffee cooperative based in San Juan La Laguna, a Tz'utujil Maya town on the southern shore of Lake Atitlán. Farmers affiliated with the cooperative grow and process organic coffee for export, bagging the dried beans in burlap sacks for storage before shipment. The cooperative's name, Spanish for "the voice that cries in the desert," its founding mission to support local growers through fair-trade coffee production.
Taken March 2020
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