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“I like to do things myself,” says Isabel Tinga, 75, a cassava farmer in central Mozambique. She wants to expand her plantation to support herself in old age and provide a financial base for her niece, who suffers from mental illness. Isabel is her niece’s guardian and caregiver.   Isabel is usually energetic and productive, but in the…

The sun beats down on Mampe, a street vendor in Motloi, a village in the drought-hit district of Mafeteng in southern Lesotho. With three daughters to provide for, the 27-year-old single mother is out most days selling wares in the community to provide for them. Fortunately, Mampe’s bubbly girls…