Our Compañera: Felicitas

Felicitas comes trekking up the hill, her manta woven of the brightest yarn, and her montera covered in sequins and flowers glistening in the sun. Confident, and with a broad smile she approaches me, reaches out her hand to take mine before I’m even aware she knows who I am. I’m not used to such exuberant social confidence from the women of our Quechua communities, but right off the bat I can tell something about Felicitas is different than the other women in our partner cooperative, Songuillay. Felicitas joined the cooperative this year as part of a cohort of young...