You are helping to break the cycle of poverty
10% of the world lives on less than $1.90 a day and the cycle of poverty is strong. Some of the biggest tools to fight poverty come from the simplest solutions—training, loans, seeds, animals, and access to a marketplace. Helping someone provide for themselves provides change that will last a lifetime and effects that can be seen for generations. Women in particular feel the effects of entering a marketplace previously closed to them, providing dependable income, self-reliance, and even safety, to them and their children.
Stories
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Yasmiin’s Story
Yasmiin and her family faced seasons of hunger and thirst as the drought gripped their homeland of Somalia. Learn how this has changed.
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Angela’s Story
Families like Angela’s are living hand to mouth, unable to grow enough food to sell and eat. This puts their family’s future at risk. Learn how this changed.
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Angela’s Ginger
Angela holds her one-year-old son in her arms, he is slowly falling asleep in the Timor-Leste heat. As a single mother, Angela is the sole