RWANDA:  Our group traveled what felt like an eternity into the country to view its latest initiative—a marshland and loans to a group of rice farmers. Some 133 members of their co-op farm about 70 acres, some of them with plots as small as 1/20^th of an acre. With training and better seeds and fertilizer, over time these families will not only feed their own families better, but will sell rice in their neighboring communities.

Mark Lutz, Sr. VP, Global Philanthropy