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Former teacher and Cuso volunteer George Harding lends a hand on a training and business development project. These women, most of them, have no options, he says. Life is very, very hard. - Photo: Brian Atkinson

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Volunteers in Cameroon promote widow rights instead of widow rites.
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In rural Guatemala, only one in ten youth reach high school and far fewer ever graduate. Opportunities to invest in a generation of young men and women is a chance to change their lives.
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