| Bangladesh |
 Meet Salma
Eight years ago, Salma and her husband, Ali, didn’t have enough money to feed their children and still put a little aside as savings.
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| Cambodia |
 Meet Nuonh
The people of Preah Khae village used to look up at the stream sparkling on the side of their mountain with envy. Their only water source was several kilometers away, and it took hours out of every day to go back and forth. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if they could use the water from the stream?
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| Cambodia |
 Meet Poung
Poung Bouch and her husband Pheng Rin scrimped and saved to buy a bit of farmland to help support their seven children – and at last they bought their one-acre dream.
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Photo credit: Ratna Leak/LWF Cambodia
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| China |
 "God suffers with us"
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| India |
 Meet Lochana
India’s forests are home to millions of people. Most are sustenance farmers, living off of the land and fishing in nearby waters. But in recent years, farmers were forced from their land and fields with little-to-no notice.
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| India |
 NEW! Meet Rizia
Rizia had a dream to become a teacher. That dream was shattered when her family fell on hard times and couldn’t afford to continue her education. With a lot of hard work and a grant from ELCA World Hunger, Rizia was able to go back to school and become a teacher.
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| India |
 NEW! Meet Wang Jia-Chi
In the Gulin region of China, the Miao people have lived on an isolated mountainside for centuries. This isolation has prevented them from access to some basic needs – such as water. All that recently changed. Through our global companion relationships and the funding of ELCA World Hunger, renewed life – water – was brought to the Miao people.
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| Nepal |
 Meet Mahendra
In the past thirty years, many Bhutanese natives have been forced to flee their country in order to escape discrimination and human rights abuses.
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| Nepal |
 Meet Laxmi
Laxmi was only six years old when she told a GoodWeave inspector that she had to work to survive.
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| Pakistan |
 Meet Zeshan
Zeshan was barely four days old and already a refugee. Less than a year earlier, his mother and father were homeowners living in a middle-class neighborhood surrounded by lush mountains and streams.
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