By: Diane, Women Thrive Worldwide
Around the world, one out of every six human beings lives in extreme poverty, struggling to survive on about one $1 a day or less. The majority of those people are women. What is living on a dollar a day really like? This Fall, Ritu Sharma, President and Co-founder of Women Thrive Worldwide, traveled to Guatemala, one of the poorest countries in Central America, to find out. For four days, she lived in the municipality (county) of Tactic in the area of Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, a lush and mountainous region that contains some of the most desperate poverty in Latin America. She wore the same clothes, ate only what one dollar would buy her, and spent as much time as possible with three incredible Mayan women—Margarita, Dorotea, and Eluvia—who live on a dollar or less every day of their lives. The following an excerpt from her diary...[continued]
