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Faces
of resilience
In a small village near Tillabéry in northwestern
Niger, 61-year-old Fati Hassane sells 1-kilogram bags of
rice from a new seedbank set up by the Niger Red Cross and
the IFRC. Part of Hassane’s job as president of a committee
overseeing the seedbank is to ration rice and crop seeds
so there’s enough for all, while keeping prices down.
Meanwhile, 20 kilometers into the hills from the remote mountain
hamlet of Las Joyas, Honduras, a young man named Wilmer navigates
steep, slippery and rocky terrain on horseback. Wilmer is
no ordinary horseman. In 2010, he lost both his legs and
an arm when he fell from a freight train headed toward the
United States. After receiving new prosthetic legs from the
ICRC, Wilmer is able to make a modest income working on his
family’s small banana and coffee plantation. These
are just two of many examples of how the Movement helps people
and communities regain independence and restore their resilience
in the face of economic, physical or environmental hardship. |
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“I am very pleased
with the way the seed bank has changed my life and
the lives of my fellow villagers,” says Fati
Hassane, president of a committee that oversees a seed
bank in a small village near Tillabéry, north-western
Niger. “We used to have to travel far to buy
rice. Now we have it here in our village.”
Photo:©Mari
Aftret/Norwegian Red Cross
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“People can learn to overcome
anything, if they take it one step at a time,” says
Wilmer, a Honduran plantation worker who received two
artificial legs from the ICRC. “Even though I
fall down — and I fall down a lot — I keep
trying until I succeed.” After crossing Guatemala,
he climbed onto a train in Tenosique, in southern Mexico
in an effort to reach the United States.
Photo: ©Olivier
Moeckli, ICRC |
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With the help of cash grant from the
Pakistan Red Crescent Society and the IFRC, Aziz Ullah
was able to open a shop where he repairs punctured
tyres for people in his village, located in Sindh Province.
The grant was part of a livelihoods project for families
affected by Pakistan’s 2010 monsoon floods. Photo: ©Usman
Ghani/IFRC |
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“They are always pushing and
helping me to move forward and change the way I look
upon life,” says 37-year-old Jackeline Erazo,
referring to volunteers with the Colombian Red Cross’s
Panica programme, which reaches out to vulnerable families
in Cali’s impoverished El Calvario neighbourhood. “They
also help with food and education, and they are teaching
my children in order to prevent them from engaging
in criminal activity. When they come I feel happy — more
protected and not so alone.” Photo: ©Rene
Diaz Helkin/IFRC |
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