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June 2, 2017

Jeet Bahadur: A Lead Farmer in Dolkha District, Nepal

Jeet Bahadur Tamang is a 40-year-old lead farmer from Gairimudi, in the Dolkha District of Nepal. Jeet currently owns and farms two-thirds of an acre. He used to work as a porter in another village, carrying heavy loads of goods on trekking routes. Jeet earned just enough to survive and no one in the village would give him a loan – not even a small amount.

June 2, 2017

Mrs. Masnah: An Entrepreneur in Indonesia

Mrs. Masnah is 50 years old and lives in Dara Kunci Village on the Island of Lombok in Indonesia. She has four children. Mrs. Masnah was very enthusiastic when she attended a training on the manufacturing of cashew fruit and wheat crackers which was facilitated by the staff of LPSDM, a World Neighbors local partner.

June 2, 2017

Magno Castillo: A Farmer in Peru

Vacahuasi is a rural community in the district of Ocros in the Ayacucho Region of Peru where Magno Castillo lives with his wife Primitiva Gutierrez and their five children. Magno is happy and enthusiastic about his new guinea pig farm. He started working on it in May 2015, when World Neighbors was implementing a community led assessment of the region.

June 2, 2017

Leandro Mendez, Community of San Nicolas, Bolivia

San Nicolas is a community in the sub-central part of Sik´imira, a municipality of Vila Vila, located in the department of Cochabamba, in Bolivia. In April 2015 when WN first visited and presented our development approach to the community, participants did not show much interest.

June 2, 2017

Gufadanda Gaukhet, Sindhupalchok, Nepal

Gufadanda Gaukhet is a small village with a poor and marginalized community under the Ichok Village Development Committee (VDC) in the Sindhupalchok District of Nepal. There are 15 households with a population of 91.

June 2, 2017

The Community of Fatunababo in Timor-Leste: Success in protecting and conserving their water source

On the small island nation of East Timor or Timor Leste, Aldea Fatunababu is a small village in Suco Usitaco with 58 households. The main livelihood in this area is dry land agriculture. Fatunababu’s geography is mountainous, with a lot of waste and rocky land which is prone to landslides.