Ana Maria

Ana Maria lives in Namanji. Her family has a garden about 150 meters from their house where they grow sorghum, beans, and corn. Her father, uncle, brothers, and grandfather work there. It is a very small garden because the cow and the horses once ate it, breaking the pots. Now they have replanted directly in the ground. They have one cow, two horses, two oxen, two dogs, and 22 chickens.

For breakfast, lunch, and dinner, Ana Maria and her family eat beans, rice, tortillas, and coffee or a fruit drink. 

Ana Maria loves chicken and soda, but she only has them when she visits her more wealthy relatives in Jinotega or Esteli.

Ana Maria's family has their own well which supplies them and their next door neighbor with water. Before drinking, they chlorinate it. To wash clothes, the majority of the people in the community go to the river. There is also a communal well that has been working for a year.

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