HungerFree Women: Real lives
8 stories from 80,000
80,000 women marched with HungerFREE Women, many traveling for weeks and even months. On the eve of International Women's Day, HungerFREE Women Speak Out, the photo exhibition of their journeys, is both a celebration of these women and a call to action to find fair and lasting solutions to the food crisis. We met so many inspiring people on the campaign trail; here are the stories of of 8 of them.
Sumitra Thami: Dolakha, Nepal
Sumitra is a new breed of women’s rights activist. She traveled with HungerFREE from her village in the Himalayas to join a rally of 3,000 women in Chitwan.
Rubi Khan: Nepalganj, Nepal
Just 19 Rubi is confident and articulate, and has the passion to bring change to her society. She is the Chair of new Women’s Rights Forum in Nepal.
Thonyde Jean: Kapable, Haiti
Thonyde lives at the remote end of a peninsula on lake Peligre in a pink and white wooden house. The place is serene and beautiful but remote.
Adiya Tibanagwa: Uganda.
Adiya Tibanagwa is part of HungerFREE's fight for secure land tenure for women in Uganda.
Margarida Paolo Ubisse-Ndimande; Mozambique
Margarida owns 11 acres of land but, without official title deeds, she lost half of that to a land grabber. HungerFREE is calling for secure land tenure for women in Mozambique.
