Archive for 'April,2011'

What is it like?

What is it like?

Professor Jaime Enrique teaches 27 little students between the ages of four and six in the village of Chirixquitzac, Guatemala. A few children bring small workbooks to class. One student even carries a bright pink “Hannah [...]

Bolivia: The New Center of Fashion?

Bolivia: The New Center of Fashion?

In Bolivia, the people of Hichuraya and Muramaya are proving that they can lift themselves out of poverty with their own two hands. A few weeks ago, we bragged about their new skills of dying wool [...]

A Healthy Education

A Healthy Education

Women receiving health training. “I was tired of burying people who died from preventable diseases,” lamented Mama Sifuna, a new Community Health Worker in her village in Kenya. Members of her village were constantly plagued with [...]

The 401k Goat Plan

The 401k Goat Plan

Have you ever thought of adding a few goats to your retirement savings plan? The idea is not so crazy to some rural villagers in Dhuseni, Nepal. Shyam Achhami, a talented mason, and his wife, Shanti, [...]