Supporting our local community of cacao farmers with massage
Did you know that besides producing cacao, I am actually a qualified massage therapist? Since living in Lucerna, the small farming community where we have our cacao farm, I’ve started giving massages to the people here. Most had never had massages before.
Farming cacao in the Amazon is hard as fuck work. The heat, insects, humidity, jungle vegetation, the physical aspect of the work and also the time and dedication and patience involved. No work in the city ticks all these boxes.
This is the last place on earth I thought I would experience. Especially farming a plant I have previously not enjoyed (see previous post (insert link to previous post) for more on that).
But here I am now farming cacao and enjoying the colossal task of building a cacao farm up from destitution. Obviously I don’t work as hard as most people here, but I’m doing what I can. Rómulo works a lot harder than I do though 😉
I might not work the hours in the farm that all in Lucerna do, but I am giving back by massaging their hard working and often pain filled bodies. The Massage a Cacao Farmer campaign was created to give ongoing support to the people in Lucerna so that they can access care for their well being (ain’t no massage clinics anywhere near here!).
All in Lucerna would love to receive more massages: for every £30 donated, a give one person a one hour healing massage.
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