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This girl happened to be the only girl in the entire village who had made it to the ninth grade.
After two weeks of working in that village, it was time to go back.
Two months later, I go to another village on the same assignment and they asked me to live with the village chief.
The women's chief of the village has this little girl, fair color like me, totally dirty.
But in the last year, where President Sirleaf comes from, her village, we went there to work with these girls.
This is a real rural village.
You can go to the most remote village in Haiti and you will find somebody selling kerosene and charcoal.
A colleague and I were traveling in a very remote village, and we asked an old man to take us down into a little tomb.
But then somebody actually launched this start-up called Matternet, where they figured out that you could use this to actually transport things from one village to another in Africa, and the fact that this was easy to find, open-source, easy to hack, enabled them to prototype their company really quickly.
And I know that with the Cheetahs, we can take Africa back one village at a time.
So I arranged with the village elder; the people would come along the next day, and I would take portraits of all these people and record their stories.
I got in a bit of a panic, because these people were coming up to me, desperate, and I was trying to explain to the village elder that I was not a doctor, and I couldn't help these people.
And the village elder turned to me and he said, "No, it's really important; these people know you're not a doctor, but at least somebody is now telling their story, and somebody is recording what is happening to them."
CA: So that would produce irrigation for the entire village?
Maybe the next Albert Einstein or the next Steve Jobs is living somewhere in a remote village in Africa.
Kofi was rescued from a fishing village.
By association, what Kat wasn't was just like the little brown-skinned children frolicking through the streets of some incidental railway settlement like Tati Siding, or an off-the-grid village like Kgagodi, legs clad in dust stockings whose knees had blackened from years of kneeling and wax-polishing floors, whose shins were marked with lessons from climbing trees, who played until dusk, went in for supper by a paraffin lamp and returned to play hide-and-seek amongst centipedes and owls until finally someone's mother would call the whole thing to an end.
The very first time I queered being out in a village, I was in my early 20s, and I wore a kaftan.
And so I used these village homes for self-reflection and to give hope to the others who don't belong.
To overcome these barriers, Alaska has developed a state-of-the-art telemedicine system that connects over 250 village health clinics with specialists who triage all types of health concerns.
About a year after I met Lu Qingmin, or Min, she invited me home to her family village for the Chinese New Year.
Later, she married a fellow migrant worker, moved with him to his village, gave birth to two daughters, and saved enough money to buy a secondhand Buick for herself and an apartment for her parents.
She recently returned to Dongguan on her own to take a job in a factory that makes construction cranes, temporarily leaving her husband and children back in the village.
Together, they make up the largest migration in history, and it is globalization, this chain that begins in a Chinese farming village and ends with iPhones in our pockets and Nikes on our feet and Coach handbags on our arms that has changed the way these millions of people work and marry and live and think.
Some of it's very high-tech, and some of it is extremely low-tech, such as the project that MKSS is running in Rajasthan, India, where they take the spending data of the state and paint it on 100,000 village walls, and then invite the villagers to come and comment who is on the government payroll, who's actually died, what are the bridges that have been built to nowhere, and to work together through civic engagement to save real money and participate and have access to that budget.
If the Internet is a global phenomenon, if we live in a global village, it's because there are cables underneath the ocean, cables like this.
Some aid may have built a hospital, fed a hungry village.
And as I went village to village, I remember one day, when I was famished and exhausted, and I was almost collapsing in a scorching heat under a tree, and just at that time, one of the poorest men in that village invited me into his hut and graciously fed me.
It's to pacify the village that he works in.
They're made by the gazillions in China and India, and we can source them anywhere in the world, build the chair anywhere, and most importantly repair it, even out in a village with a local bicycle mechanic who has local tools, knowledge and parts available.
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