Coca grower Mariel Chura, 21, plays the viola during a break from harvesting coca leaves in her lot in Chura, Chulumani province, Bolivia. When she joined a youth orchestra aged 14, Chura did not even know what a viola was. Seven years later, she loves the instrument, which has offered her an escape from the hardships of life in Bolivia’s biggest coca-producing area.

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