Global health
Eight years alone. One surgery. Now her village is planning a party.
A childbirth injury cost Malosa her baby, her husband and her place in her community. A free operation gave her back her life.
Fistula Foundation
Farming
A Kenyan farmer's half-acre went from nine bags of maize to 15, and his trees now pay school fees
Andrew Musamia and Eunice Nelima once lived in a grass-thatched house and got just nine bags of maize from half an acre. After joining a One Acre Fund farming group in 2008, Andrew harvested 15 bags, and timber from trees they planted now pays their youngest's school fees.
- 9 bags of maize from half an acre in a good season
- 15 bags from the same half-acre after training
- Trees planted in 2008 now pay Grade 10 school fees
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At ten she left school to sell handmade goods. Today she fights poverty for a living.
Chandani dropped out in fourth grade because her family could not pay the fees. One mentor and one program put her back in a classroom.
Room to Read
Housing
Seven rentals, 1,500 hours of work, and the first lawyer in her family.
Antonia Cuffee spent her childhood moving from one rented place to the next. Helping build her family's first real home taught her how to finish what she started.
Habitat for Humanity International
Veterans
He lost his leg clearing bombs. Then he became a firefighter.
An Air Force bomb disposal sergeant came home from his third tour badly wounded. A house built around his injuries gave him the strength to chase the job he had always wanted.
Homes For Our Troops
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