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Posted on October 26, 2022
By Josie Noah, Chief Global Officer, SightLife, and Shaifali Sharma, Director of Prevention Program, SightLife India
ChandBee with Dr. Audrey Talley Rostov. Photo © Margot Duane.
ChandBee is an agricultural worker and mother living outside of Hyderabad, India. When she began to lose her sight at 25, it became increasingly difficult to work in the fields alongside her husband. Without her income, they could no longer provide for their family and her children were eventually forced to move into an orphanage. After four years of severe eye pain, ChandBee received a corneal transplant from SightLife partner, L.V. Prasad Eye Institute. With her sight restored, she returned to work and was reunited with her children.
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Posted on October 21, 2022
By: Julie Budkowski, Director of Global operations, Future of Fish
Photo: Future of Fish
Empowering sustainable fisheries is as much an effort to address food security and livelihoods as it is about environmental protection. Globally, over 3 billion people rely on fish as their primary source of protein. In many of the world’s least developed countries, where fish is often the cheapest source of protein, it accounts for over 50%. Fish is an essential food.
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Posted on October 18, 2022
By Esther Mwaura-Muiru, Landesa
A Senegalese farmer holds a cluster of tomatoes that she grew on her farm. In sub-Saharan Africa, women farmers account for 57 percent of the workforce in agriculture. Photo by Landesa/Nicole Tomita
Women farmers feed their communities and the world. From the paddy terraces of Asia to the maize fields of sub-Saharan Africa, the woman farmer tills, plants, waters, and harvests crops that provide food security and nutrition for millions.
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