North Koreans have harvested almost 4 million tons of food-not nearly enough to adequately feed a nation. They plant crops everywhere-from flood-recovered fields to rooftops to rocky hillsides. Children spend 12-hour days following harvesters in search of fallen grain....
The idea of day care is still pretty new in Appalachia. There are big extended families and family ties mean everything. But divorce is becoming more common, and people have to work longer hours to make ends meet. Even...
Estella is known locally as someone who can fix anything. She repairs items found in the nearby city dump and resells them for a steady income, but she lacks collateral. Considered a “high risk” borrower by local banks, she...
When Mrs. Yong Eng stepped on a land mine, she lost one leg and injured the other. “Sometimes, forgetful of my maimed state, I spring to catch my little child,” she says, “and then I fall to the ground,...
“Give me a cow,” said old Halil. “That’s all I need. If we had cows, we could take care of ourselves again.” So a Global Impact member agency encouraged a group of 24 displaced families living in Slatina, outside...
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