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Mothers already shouldered tremendous financial, physical, emotional, and intellectual burdens before the onset of the pandemic. But now, many of these burdens have become crushing. 

Carol Nascimento was 21 when she left home in Belo Horizonte in search of a life purpose. She found it in Vale do Capão, in the rural community of Chapada Diamantina, where she formed Alevante da Terra (Earth Rising), a... Read more

Weeks turned into months, and still the rains never came. As the drought in Somalia scorches the land, the chances for a family’s survival wither and die like crops and livestock, forcing them to search for lifelines... Read more

Some of the most persistent barriers to bodily autonomy involve stereotypes, assumptions and misconceptions about bodily autonomy.