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Meet the women who are making global hunger
a thing of the past.
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Myint is a schoolteacher in Myanmar's Irawaddy Delta who is diversifying her vegetable garden to improve her family's nutrition and earn tuition money for her eldest son. |
Dafroza is a community leader in the Congo who is teaching women how to make more efficient cookstoves to help them eat more and survive inhospitable displacement camps. |
And Kanthi is a widowed rice farmer in Sri Lanka who is learning a new method of cultivation that will reduce her reliance on expensive fertilizer and increase her harvest at the same time. |
Around the world, Mercy Corps is investing in women like Myint, Dafroza and Kanthi because they're the key to fighting hunger.
Chronic hunger leads to opportunistic diseases, to women dying during pregnancy, to undersized babies facing lifelong health problems, to generations of impoverished families, and to environmental damage from desperate farmers simply trying to feed their families.
But hunger is solvable. We're confident that investing in women is one of the smartest ways to end hunger — and improve the well-being of entire families.
When a woman succeeds in school or farming or business, she provides food, education and health care to her family. Her own health and well-being improves, she gains confidence and ingenuity, and the entire community benefits.
That's why today Mercy Corps is launching a new campaign to fight hunger by investing in women. We're calling the campaign One Table, because global hunger is a shared problem we must come together to solve. And we all have something to contribute.
Millions of women — like Myint, Dafroza and Kanthi — are already at the table, doing their part.
Join them in making hunger a thing of the past. What can you bring to the table?
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