Helping to climb a mountain of poverty
Seven years ago, children living in the isolated Honduran mountain village of Guyamitas were forced to eat grass and leaves to survive.
Most left school after sixth grade. Boys worked in the fields or sweatshops, and girls quickly got married and began raising large families.
A cycle of grinding poverty had repeated itself generation after generation.
Although the government had a program to provide meals for school children, the
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