Chocolate Country

My project is to work with a Cacao (Cocoa) Cooperative and help them to strengthen their business skills and develop relationships with international buyers in hopes to internationally export their crops. I am following previous Peace Corps volunteers who have been working for the past few years to help develop the office aspect of the cooperative and get the farmers organically certified. The couple who was placed with the Cooperative from 2003-2005 had a son who made a documentary of the Cacao farmers. He submitted the film to the 2007 Seattle International Film Festival and it won a grand jury prize. I have attached the link to the site where you can watch the documentary, my project partner is Maria Elena, the women with the rollers in her hair and a missing front tooth.

http://www.seattlefilm.org/festival/film/detail.aspx?id=24036&FID=32

It's exciting to have such a developed primary project with so much potential and support; not to mention the documentary gives everyone at home a little taste of my life here in the DR.
Enjoy!