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Safeguarding health helps families feed themselves.
When Freedom from Hunger’s Credit with Education program came to her rural town in Ghana, Dorcas Aidoo was one of the first women to join a group and take a loan. ”I wanted to free myself from poverty,” she said. Dorcas was one of the 800 million people surviving on roughly one dollar or less per day and facing chronic hunger for herself and her four children. Eight years later, she has made solid progress. She now earns enough money to feed her children nutritious food and send them to school. She has expanded and improved her roadside stand to sell more products, and she even sets aside $56 per month in savings. Read more …
