The community of Lomas de Café consists of 137 of the people who live in this village, 31 families. The total population of Lomas de Café is 96 families, 522 people, living in two sectors. The village is located 25 kilometers north of the town of Camoapa, the market center of a dairy cattle area. Camoapa is one of the principal towns of Boaco province, in the central mountainous region of Nicaragua. The community is located in what was formerly a coffee plantation in the 1970’s and 1980’s, then a cooperative of 14 families, and is now a farming village of widely dispersed houses in a hilly area difficult of access. The people in Lomas de Café are now subsistence farmers growing corn and beans and raising a few domestic animals (chickens, pigs). Their average monthly income is equal to about U$60 per family. The community lacks access to adequate drinking water and sanitation facilities. As a consequence the families suffer from water-borne diarrheal diseases. The women of the village carry water home in 5 gallon buckets on their heads, sometimes as far as 600 meters. Five gallons of water weighs 40 pounds. They are usually accompanied and assisted by their daughters who carry smaller buckets until they are 10 or 12 years old and then the children also begin to carry a 5 gallon bucket.