Hunger Blog

The Hunger Blog is an open dialogue that highlights how microfinance, when combined with lifeskills and health services, empowers women to improve their incomes, safeguard their childrens’ health and achieve lasting food security.

Archive for December, 2008

A Sense of Urgency for Kadia and Her Children

These days, everyone is looking at the bottom line and cutting back. Freedom from Hunger is no different as it considers where to apply scarce resources for greatest impact. For us, that means focusing even more on what we do best for the people who need us most-like Kadia Cissé, who lives in rural Mali. She is one of the “chronically hungry poor” who cannot reliably feed her family enough good food every day. She has three children and no husband. Her home-based business is earning her just a dollar a day. She and her children have health problems that prevent her from earning more money. Read more …

--Chris Dunford | 12-18-08 | Permalink | Comments (2)

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