C.D. Glin lends a hand - literally - at the Matema Potato Growers Cooperative, a grantee of the USADF in Zimbabwe.
Images of impoverished people, perhaps in refugee camps, waiting listlessly for international assistance to save their lives, are a staple of global media coverage. The president and CEO of a U.S. government development organization sees a different Africa - one where local creativity, resilience and entrepreneurship are transforming communities, even amid a pandemic, and where respectful assistance goes a long way to support those efforts.
C.D. Glin lends a hand - literally - at the Matema Potato Growers Cooperative, a grantee of the USADF in Zimbabwe.
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