They settle in the area to make a better life and living for their families. They traverse the treacherous road for hours aboard trucks, high atop cargo, without covering or in overcrowded buses. They make their way here, with only what they can carry on them. Then they take to the land to try to raise crops. It is hard to live here.
Families are large, on average, consisting of five people.
Days are long, chronic illness is common, and the lack of passable roads makes getting help extremely difficult. The average life span for the area is 51 years. Farmers use slash and burn techniques not out of disrespect for the land, but because it is cheap, it requires little long term investment and it works. For a short time anyway. Migrating is how they have learned to cope, to survive.