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Children International
This is the blog of Children International, a non-profit, humanitarian organisation dedicated to easing the burdens of poverty on poor children. Through child sponsorship, it provides assistance to children and families struggling in terrible poverty.
15 Oct 2008 15:50:00 GMT
Global Food Crisis: Meet Three Families Fighting for Survival
Written by Scott Cotter

While many of us are feeling the squeeze of higher prices, sponsored families supported by Children International now find themselves facing a real crisis.

Many already teeter between calamity and survival. To stay afloat, they often master the fine art of eking out an income in jobless communities through persistence, hard work and ingenuity. They've summoned the courage to keep going, and to work harder for just pennies a day.

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