Holiday help
Margin, 10, from Nicaragua, gets up early school starts at 8am. When she gets home, she has lunch, does her homework, and then meets her family and friends in the sesame fields. In the holidays they meet in the morning and work all day.
In the fields they do lots of different jobs. The sesame plants need cutting and then stacking when it has dried. After that, the plants need crushing to get the seeds out. 'It's hot and sweaty,' says Margin, 'and your feet hurt when the ants bite, but I like doing it!'
Their families work together with other neighbours, growing the sesame seeds which make oil that goes into Body Shop products we use. They belong to a special group, in Achuapa, called a co-operative, which makes sure that they get a fair price for their sesame seed if they didn't, Margin and her friends would go hungry.
Margin likes helping out in the fields, although it can be hard work, especially when it gets very hot. But doing their bit means they can all have enough to eat all year round.
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Christian Aid/Paul Smith
It's important to work to help my family to eat,'
says Margin
Christian Aid/Paul Smith
Margin and her pals beating the dried sesame to let the seeds out
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