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“I learned to live like this.”

This story was contributed by Kristy Lynn Allen, who is volunteering with rural farmers in La Merced, a rural mountain community an hour from Ecuador’s capital city Quito. Kristy describes the courage that kept a highland farmer afloat in his struggle to regain control over his family’s land. In 1976, Luis Fernando was born and [...]

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