One Table: Regrowing the Garden
June 18, 2009
Country: Myanmar
Photo: Jeremy Barnicle/Mercy Corps
Life here in Bo Kone, Myanmar, a village of about a thousand people, has never been easy. Located on an isolated island in the Irrawaddy Delta, it's about an hour's boat ride to the nearest town.
And then Cyclone Nargis tore through the village last year, killing about a quarter of its inhabitants and submerging in salt water its acres of rice fields.
Those who survived — including Myint Aye, the village geography teacher and a 47-year-old mother of two — lost everything...
Read the rest of Myint's story — and tales of other women who are working hard to feed their families — at onetable.mercycorps.org.
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One Table is a Mercy Corps campaign to fight world hunger by investing in the world's women.
Find out more: onetable.mercycorps.org
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