by Marianne Taflinger – USA – In Sweden, a doctor delivers Sari, and her family celebrates what will be the beginning of a long life, probably 83 years or more. She’ll attend at least 17 years of school and if …

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by Marianne Taflinger Intern, The WIP – USA – To people born in the highlands of Guatemala, life choices look bleak. While about 69.1% of Guatemalans attain literacy by the time they are adults, they have limited or no health …

TechnoServe Transforms Lives by Investing in Rural Guatemalan Entrepreneurs Read more »

by Marianne Taflinger – USA – You Can Hear Me Now by Nicholas Sullivan tells the unlikeliest of stories. The story is of one man who dreamed of “connecting” the rural poor to make them more productive, and ended up …

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by Marianne Taflinger Intern, The WIP – USA – As a child, I was a blond, blue-eyed little girl in a small Southern Indiana town where my father was the itinerant principal of both the elementary school and the middle …

The Other Side of the Tracks Read more »