Celso Benitez

Celso is 37 years old and lives with his partner, Luz Mabel who is 33 years old. They have been together for 5 years and have a small child that doesn't attend school yet.

Celso is a craftsman. He works on pottery (making crafts out of clay). He comments that he started in the trade since he was a kid because all of his family worked on it.

The abilities to work with clay are passed from one generation to the next and it was his mother, a renowned local craftwoman, the one that taught Celso since he was little to work with the clay creating different types of figures like:
jars, vessels, pitchers, and decorative animals.

He wakes up early every day to start his daily routine while his wife works as a clerk at a known mall in the capital where she goes early as well too.

Celso says that all his pieces are handmade, because in this way they are more precious and are highly quoted and valued especially by foreign tourists that visit the country and want to take a beautiful keepsake back to their home countries.

At this time, Celso needs a loan to invest in expanding his workshop since it is too small and the demand for his products has increased considerably.

Translated from Spanish by Maria Ramirez-Gregg, Kiva Volunteer

Celso es artesano, se dedica a la alfarería (elaboración de artesanías en barro).Comenta que se inició desde pequeño debido a que toda su familia se dedicaba a este mismo rubro.

Las habilidades con el barro se transmiten de generación en generación y fue su madre, una conocida artesana de la ciudad, la que enseño a Celso desde muy pequeño a trabajar con barro creando distintos tipos de figuras como jarrones, vasijas, cántaros y animales decorativos.

Se levanta todos los días muy temprano para comenzar su actividad diaria, mientras que su esposa trabaja como empleada de un conocido centro comercial de la capital hasta donde se traslada todos los días muy temprano también.

Celso comenta que todos sus trabajos los hace a mano, ya que de este modo es mucho más preciado y cotizado especialmente por los turistas extranjeros que visitan el país y llevan un hermoso recuerdo a sus países.

En esta oportunidad, Celso, necesita de un préstamo para invertir en la ampliación de su taller, debido a que ya le resulta pequeño y la demanda de sus productos ha aumentado considerablemente.