Jane's Beans (2012 Offering of Letters)
Channel: breadfortheworld
Date: 2011-12-30

Learn more and ask Congress to protect foreign assistance programs. Visit http://www.bread.org/OL and follow us at @bread4theworld and #2012OL.

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Jane Sabbi, a farmer in Uganda and mother of seven children, learned to plant more nutritious crops after joining a Ugandan nonprofit farming collective that receives U.S. foreign assistance.  Globally, the number of people living in extreme poverty has fallen by 400 million since 2009. This is mostly the result of much hard work by poor people themselves, but U.S. foreign assistance has played an important role. Find out how Jane Sabbi is working to create a brighter future for her family.