#casaluker

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The cocoa forest inside Inversiones Necoclí, a productive project by Casa Luker that employs 130 + local workers. It is unprecedented in the region that a company employs both women and men, on equal terms, to work on the field - something that has been traditionally regarded as manhood’s dominion. 

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Seen in Necoclí, Colombia.

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So ‘Life’ has taken me to yet another remote corner of this world. This time around I will be conducting ethnographic fieldwork in the Urabá region of Colombia, thanks to my corporate sponsor and employer Casa Luker. Urabá is the northern-most part of the Antioquia State, where banana plantations have held, for decades, the locals by the yoke; companies like Chiquita Bananas are negatively associated in the region with activities such as breaking unions, extortion, bribing, etc. It is a region where latifundism has been the norm and opportunities for a dignified employment are close to null. Casa Luker, along with its NGO Fundación Luker, has a history of leadership in social entrepreneurship for the betterment of education and is pushing considerable efforts towards procuring a dignified wage with social security for its 130 local employees. More on this in my next posts.