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Zimbabwe tobacco farmer offers lifeline to survivors of gender violence

Zimbabwe tobacco farmer offers lifeline to survivors of gender violence

NYASHA CHINGONO AS the sweltering morning sun beat down on them, about half a dozen young Zimbabwean women stacked green tobacco leaves into sheaves while another group, some with babies on their backs, loaded the harvested crop onto a tractor. In a largely male-dominated sector, Michelle Gwatimba, 36, who runs this small farm 200 km (124 miles) north of Zimbabwe's capital Harare, is not only blazing a trail for women but also provides a livelihood for those who survived violence. "We realized in the settlements around the farm, where we get most of our staff, there was a lot of…
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‘Lifeline’ tech helps poor rural women get through India’s COVID-19 crisis

‘Lifeline’ tech helps poor rural women get through India’s COVID-19 crisis

ROLI SRIVASTAVA and ANURADHA NAGARAJ ANAJANA Lalaji Bise's precious last photograph of her husband is a picture he sent to her on WhatsApp a few days before he died from COVID-19 in a hospital in western India. Bise had to quarantine at home after her husband, a farmer, was hospitalised last month, but she was able to stay in touch with him using a smartphone given to her by a local nonprofit to help her small snack business operate during the pandemic. India's COVID-19 crisis has exposed a wide digital divide, prompting many grassroots groups to focus on connecting poorer…
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