👩🌾 There’s a resilient female farmer who grinds coconut sugar by hand. Her visual impairment means this is the job that works for her body, for her eyes, for how she moves through her day.
👨🌾 Jemakir taps coconut sap when his eyesight allows, sometimes that’s midnight, sometimes midday. He’s been to hospital 16 times trying to save his vision. He’s asked us for a machete which he can sharpen evenly when he can’t see the blade properly.
👨🌾 Slamet is deaf and mute. He manages agroforestry and livestock across his land in Kulon Progo. Group training sessions have never worked for him. He needs visual tutorials and someone who’ll show him directly in the field, hands-on. His hope for our partnership is scholarship support so his child can stay in school.
At Aliet Green 16 of our agroforestry farmers are disabled. Farming is often the only livelihood available when formal employment, urban jobs and conventional workplaces aren’t designed for bodies like theirs.
At Aliet Green, the future we’re working towards is bigger:
💚 One where building a resilient community for disabled farmers starts with dignified income and stability that lifts a family out of survival mode.
💚 Where accessibility is built into training, tools, facilities and opportunity itself.
💚 Where disabled farmers can thrive, entire communities become stronger, more adaptive and more human.
For us, that means:
➡️ Fair prices that create additional income
➡️ Adaptive tools for the work they’re already doing
➡️ Training designed around how people actually learn
➡️ Infrastructure that doesn’t exclude by default
If you’re in F&B and want to support our work, it’s simple: buy from supply chains that actually include disabled farmers, championing fair prices like Aliet Green.