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  • Desert village women and girls fetching water in the Thar desert near Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India. The Thar desert borders Pakistan and the Sam Sand Dunes is a popular tourist attraction..Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Desert village women and girls fetching water in the Thar desert near Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India. The Thar desert borders Pakistan and the Sam Sand Dunes is a popular tourist attraction..Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • A desert village man takes a rest while his camel drinks at an oasis in the Thar desert near Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India. The Thar desert borders Pakistan and the Sam Sand Dunes is a popular tourist attraction..Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Camels and their owners in the Thar desert near Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India. The Thar desert borders Pakistan and the Sam Sand Dunes is a popular tourist attraction..Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Camels graze in the Thar desert near Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India. The Thar desert borders Pakistan and the Sam Sand Dunes is a popular tourist attraction..Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Camels and their owners in the Thar desert near Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India. The Thar desert borders Pakistan and the Sam Sand Dunes is a popular tourist attraction..Photo by Suzanne Lee
    SLee20050928-Jaisalmer_Scenes-0074.JPG
  • Camels and their owners in the Thar desert near Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India. The Thar desert borders Pakistan and the Sam Sand Dunes is a popular tourist attraction..Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Manju Devi, 25, and her niece Anita Devi, 17, tend to a tree in her backyard plantation of forest trees behind her house in Rajera village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 23, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with farmer's wives in Bikaner, providing technical support and training for backyard plantations that help these communities cope with the harsh climate of the Thar desert. The forest trees provide shade to the people and their cattle, reduces water loss and sand shifting, raises the value of their properties by improvement of the landscape and raises the pride of their families, ensuring better opportunities for their children. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Manju Devi, 25, and her niece Anita Devi, 17, pose for a portrait in her backyard plantation of forest trees behind her house in Rajera village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 23, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with farmer's wives in Bikaner, providing technical support and training for backyard plantations that help these communities cope with the harsh climate of the Thar desert. The forest trees provide shade to the people and their cattle, reduces water loss and sand shifting, raises the value of their properties by improvement of the landscape and raises the pride of their families, ensuring better opportunities for their children. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Manju Devi, 25, tends to a tree in her backyard plantation of forest trees behind her house in Rajera village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 23, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with farmer's wives in Bikaner, providing technical support and training for backyard plantations that help these communities cope with the harsh climate of the Thar desert. The forest trees provide shade to the people and their cattle, reduces water loss and sand shifting, raises the value of their properties by improvement of the landscape and raises the pride of their families, ensuring better opportunities for their children. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Manju Devi, 25, and her niece Anita Devi, 17, tend to a tree in her backyard plantation of forest trees behind her house in Rajera village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 23, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with farmer's wives in Bikaner, providing technical support and training for backyard plantations that help these communities cope with the harsh climate of the Thar desert. The forest trees provide shade to the people and their cattle, reduces water loss and sand shifting, raises the value of their properties by improvement of the landscape and raises the pride of their families, ensuring better opportunities for their children. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Manju Devi, 25, poses for a portrait in her backyard plantation of forest trees behind her house in Rajera village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 23, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with farmer's wives in Bikaner, providing technical support and training for backyard plantations that help these communities cope with the harsh climate of the Thar desert. The forest trees provide shade to the people and their cattle, reduces water loss and sand shifting, raises the value of their properties by improvement of the landscape and raises the pride of their families, ensuring better opportunities for their children. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Manju Devi, 25, and her niece Anita Devi, 17, pose for a portrait in her backyard plantation of forest trees behind her house in Rajera village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 23, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with farmer's wives in Bikaner, providing technical support and training for backyard plantations that help these communities cope with the harsh climate of the Thar desert. The forest trees provide shade to the people and their cattle, reduces water loss and sand shifting, raises the value of their properties by improvement of the landscape and raises the pride of their families, ensuring better opportunities for their children. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Scenery of the Himalayan desert and mountains on 3rd June 2009 on the way to Leh from Hemis and Ulley Valley, Ladakh, Jammu & Kashmir, Jammu & Kashmir, Indian Himalayas. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Scenery on 1st June 2009 of the Himalayan desert valley of Ladakh, in Jammu & Kashmir, India.  Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Birds fly against a backdrop of a fiery sunset on the Thar desert, Jaisalmer, the golden city of Rajasthan, India..Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Tourists ride Bactrian camels across the desert sand dunes in Hundar. The camels are a legacy left behind by the caravans plying the spice and textile trade routes between Punjab and China. Scenery of Nubra Valley, Ladakh on 4th June 2009. The valley of Ladakh is located in the Indian Himalayas, in the northern state of Jammu and Kashmir. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Tourists ride Bactrian camels across the desert sand dunes in Hundar. The camels are a legacy left behind by the caravans plying the trade routes between Punjab and China. Scenery of Nubra Valley, Ladakh on 4th June 2009. The valley of Ladakh is located in the Indian Himalayas, in the northern state of Jammu and Kashmir. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Technoserve's Assistant Project Manager, Piyush Tiwari, discusses plant diseases with guar farmer Bhanwarlal Sharma, 60, and his son, Arjun Sharma, 28, in their agriculture field in Bamanwali village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 24th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with farmers in Bikaner, providing technical support and training, causing increased yield from implementation of good agricultural practices as well as a switch to using better grains better suited to the given climate. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Technoserve's Assistant Project Manager, Piyush Tiwari, discusses plant diseases with guar farmer Bhanwarlal Sharma, 60, and his son, Arjun Sharma, 28, in their agriculture field in Bamanwali village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 24th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with farmers in Bikaner, providing technical support and training, causing increased yield from implementation of good agricultural practices as well as a switch to using better grains better suited to the given climate. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Traders bid for guar harvests from piles that farmers bring in to be auctioned off in Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 24th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with farmers in Bikaner, providing technical support and training, causing increased yield from implementation of good agricultural practices as well as a switch to using better grains better suited to the given climate. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • A guar farmer's child runs after a herd of cows at his farmhouse in Rajera village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 23, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with farmers in Bikaner, providing technical support and training, causing increased yield from implementation of good agricultural practices as well as a switch to using better grains better suited to the given climate. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Guar farmers Pemaram Jangu, 70 and his wife Jhuma Jangu, 65, sift through their crop after threshing it in their field in Hameira village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India. Non-Profit Organisation Technoserve works with Guar farmers in Bikaner to provide technical farming knowledge to them, improving their crop yield through good agricultural practices. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Choti Devi (right), aged 63, harvests Bengal Gram from her field in Balaji ki Dhani, Bauli, Nagaur District, Rajasthan, together with hired labour. Barefoot solar engineer Santosh Devi who graduated from a  solar course in the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India, had provided Choti Devi with solar power and lanterns improving her life by allowing her to protect herself from poisonous monsoon insects and work late in the fields, cook in the night, and protect her cattle when they return from grazing after sunset. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
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  • Santosh Devi, aged 19, poses for a portrait in her workshop at home. She graduated 2 years ago from the solar engineering course of the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India. She has since solar powered 20 homes in her village, Balaji Ki Dhani, Bauli, Nagur District, Rajasthan, making it the first village in India to be 100% solar powered in all houses. Above this, she does all maintenance for the neighbouring village, Gudda Ki Dhani, where the previous male solar engineer had left the village to find unrelated work in the city. Barefoot College prefers training women to be solar engineers for this reason that they have higher chances of staying in the village instead of moving to the cities. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
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  • Tsemang Dolma (left) and a friend prepare breakfast in the 200 year old kitchen of Rinchen's house on 2nd June 2009. They run a home stay program in Ulley Valley, a scattered village of only 5 houses, one school, 38 people, 4 school children, and 4 pet dogs. The village is not accessible by road. The homestay program is managed by 'Snow Leopard Conservation Organisation', an NGO that helps families in the mountains that face constant snow leopard attacks on their live stock. Leh town is 3505m above sea level, in the Indian Himalayan mountains, in the region of Ladakh, located in the Indian Himalayas, in the northern state of Jammu and Kashmir. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Young monks take a rest outside while a long day of special prayers commence at Thiksay Monastery, Leh, Ladakh, Jammu & Kashmir, India on the morning of 1st June 2009. Thiksay, founded in the 15th century, sits on a hill 19 km southeast of Leh town, and houses approximately 100 monks.  Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Guar farmer Bhanwarlal Sharma, 60, poses for a portrait in his agriculture field in Bamanwali village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 24th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with farmers in Bikaner, providing technical support and training, causing increased yield from implementation of good agricultural practices as well as a switch to using better grains better suited to the given climate. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Traders bid for guar harvests from piles that farmers bring in to be auctioned off in Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 24th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with farmers in Bikaner, providing technical support and training, causing increased yield from implementation of good agricultural practices as well as a switch to using better grains better suited to the given climate. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Traders bid for guar harvests from piles as farmers bring in their harvests to be auctioned off in Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 24th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with farmers in Bikaner, providing technical support and training, causing increased yield from implementation of good agricultural practices as well as a switch to using better grains better suited to the given climate. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Traders bid for guar harvests from piles that farmers bring in to be auctioned off in Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 24th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with farmers in Bikaner, providing technical support and training, causing increased yield from implementation of good agricultural practices as well as a switch to using better grains better suited to the given climate. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Piyush Tiwari, Assistant Project Manager at Technoserve, provides field training to a group of guar farmers in the Technoserve Guar Demo Plot in Kheeyara village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 24th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with farmers in Bikaner, providing technical support and training, causing increased yield from implementation of good agricultural practices as well as a switch to using better grains better suited to the given climate. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Piyush Tiwari, Assistant Project Manager at Technoserve, provides field training to a group of guar farmers in the Technoserve Guar Demo Plot in Kheeyara village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 24th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with farmers in Bikaner, providing technical support and training, causing increased yield from implementation of good agricultural practices as well as a switch to using better grains better suited to the given climate. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Sunayana Ingle, an associate at Technoserve, provides field training to a group of women who are a part of Technoserve's kitchen garden program, in a kitchen garden in Bamanwali village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 24th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with guar farmer's wives in Bikaner, providing technical support and training for edible gardening, to improve the nutritional quality of their food and relieve financial stress on farming communities. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Sunayana Ingle, an associate at Technoserve, provides field training to a group of women who are a part of Technoserve's kitchen garden program, in a kitchen garden in Bamanwali village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 24th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with guar farmer's wives in Bikaner, providing technical support and training for edible gardening, to improve the nutritional quality of their food and relieve financial stress on farming communities. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • A group of women who are a part of Technoserve's kitchen garden program, gather for a training in a house in Bamanwali village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 24th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with guar farmer's wives in Bikaner, providing technical support and training for edible gardening, to improve the nutritional quality of their food and relieve financial stress on farming communities. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Sunayana Ingle, an associate at Technoserve, provides training to a group of women who are a part of Technoserve's kitchen garden program, in a house in Bamanwali village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 24th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with guar farmer's wives in Bikaner, providing technical support and training for edible gardening, to improve the nutritional quality of their food and relieve financial stress on farming communities. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • A group of women who are a part of Technoserve's kitchen garden program, gather for a training in a house in Bamanwali village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 24th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with guar farmer's wives in Bikaner, providing technical support and training for edible gardening, to improve the nutritional quality of their food and relieve financial stress on farming communities. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Sunayana Ingle, an associate at Technoserve, provides training to a group of women who are a part of Technoserve's kitchen garden program, in a house in Bamanwali village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 24th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with guar farmer's wives in Bikaner, providing technical support and training for edible gardening, to improve the nutritional quality of their food and relieve financial stress on farming communities. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • A group of women who are a part of Technoserve's kitchen garden program, gather for a training with a Technoserve personnel in Bamanwali village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 24th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with guar farmer's wives in Bikaner, providing technical support and training for edible gardening, to improve the nutritional quality of their food and relieve financial stress on farming communities. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Guar farmer Kelavati Devi (left), 38, makes tea for her family after a hard day's work in their field in Rajera village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 23, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with farmers in Bikaner, providing technical support and training, causing increased yield from implementation of good agricultural practices as well as a switch to using better grains better suited to the given climate. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • (L-R) Guar farmers Kelavati Devi, 38, and her relative Manju Sankaram pose for a portrait holding guar beans after threshing the crop in their shared field in Rajera village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 23, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with farmers in Bikaner, providing technical support and training, causing increased yield from implementation of good agricultural practices as well as a switch to using better grains better suited to the given climate. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • (L-R) Guar farmers Kelavati Devi, 38, and her relative Manju Sankaram pose for a portrait holding guar beans after threshing the crop in their shared field in Rajera village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 23, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with farmers in Bikaner, providing technical support and training, causing increased yield from implementation of good agricultural practices as well as a switch to using better grains better suited to the given climate. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Guar farmer Manju Sankaram bags the guar beans after threshing the crop in her shared field in Rajera village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 23, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with farmers in Bikaner, providing technical support and training, causing increased yield from implementation of good agricultural practices as well as a switch to using better grains better suited to the given climate. Photograph by Suzanne Lee
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  • Guar farmers Birbal Ram, 38, his wife Kelavati Devi, 38, and their extended family thresh their harvested guar in their shared field in Rajera village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 23, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with farmers in Bikaner, providing technical support and training, causing increased yield from implementation of good agricultural practices as well as a switch to using better grains better suited to the given climate. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Gogaram Giri, 35, holds a bunch of beans after harvesting them from her kitchen garden in a village near Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 23, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with farmer's wives in Bikaner, providing technical support and training for edible gardening, to improve the nutritional quality of their food and relieve financial stress on farming communities. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Guar farmer Sugnaram, aged 27, poses for a portrait with a recent harvest of guar in his field in Sarera village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 23, 2016. Sugnaram plants guar on 5 hectares of his 8 hectare land and has doubled his yield with this harvest after implementing the technical changes he has learnt in Technoserve's training. Non-Profit Organisation Technoserve works with Guar farmers in Bikaner to provide technical farming knowledge to them, improving their crop yield through good agricultural practices. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Guar farmer Sugnaram, aged 27, poses for a portrait with a recent harvest of guar in his field in Sarera village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 23, 2016. Sugnaram plants guar on 5 hectares of his 8 hectare land and has doubled his yield with this harvest after implementing the technical changes he has learnt in Technoserve's training. Non-Profit Organisation Technoserve works with Guar farmers in Bikaner to provide technical farming knowledge to them, improving their crop yield through good agricultural practices. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Harvested guar plants dry in piles in the sun on farmer Pemaram Jangu's, 70, agriculture field in Hameira village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 23, 2016. Non-Profit Organisation Technoserve works with Guar farmers in Bikaner to provide technical farming knowledge to them, improving their crop yield through good agricultural practices. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Guar farmer Pemaram Jangu, 70, and his wife Jhuma Jangu, 65, harvest their crop in their field in Hameira village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India. Non-Profit Organisation Technoserve works with Guar farmers in Bikaner to provide technical farming knowledge to them, improving their crop yield through good agricultural practices. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Guar farmer Jhuma Jangu, 65, harvests her crop in her field in Hameira village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India. Non-Profit Organisation Technoserve works with Guar farmers in Bikaner to provide technical farming knowledge to her, improving their crop yield through good agricultural practices. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Choti Devi (right), aged 63, harvests Bengal Gram from her field in Balaji ki Dhani, Bauli, Nagaur District, Rajasthan, together with hired labour. Barefoot solar engineer Santosh Devi who graduated from a  solar course in the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India, had provided Choti Devi with solar power and lanterns improving her life by allowing her to protect herself from poisonous monsoon insects and work late in the fields, cook in the night, and protect her cattle when they return from grazing after sunset. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
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  • Choti Devi, aged 63, speaks about the benefits of solar power while in her field in Balaji ki Dhani, Bauli, Nagaur District, Rajasthan. Barefoot solar engineer Santosh Devi who graduated from a solar course in the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India, had provided Choti Devi with solar power and lanterns improving her life by allowing her to protect herself from poisonous monsoon insects and work late in the fields, cook in the night, and protect her cattle when they return from grazing after sunset. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
    Suzanne20110401-Solar-Power-Rajastha...JPG
  • Sanjit "Bunker" Roy (b. 1945) is an Indian social activist and the founder of the Barefoot College (est. 1971) in Tilonia, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India. .The college takes men, women and children who are illiterate and semi-literate from the lowest castes, and from the most remote and inaccessible villages in India and other countries in Africa and South Asia, and trains them to become "barefoot" water and solar engineers, architects, pathologists, midwives, accountants, and etc.. These villagers then work within their own communities, thus making them less dependent on "outside" skills. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
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  • Sanjit "Bunker" Roy (b. 1945) is an Indian social activist and the founder of the Barefoot College (est. 1971) in Tilonia, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India. .The college takes men, women and children who are illiterate and semi-literate from the lowest castes, and from the most remote and inaccessible villages in India and other countries in Africa and South Asia, and trains them to become "barefoot" water and solar engineers, architects, pathologists, midwives, accountants, and etc.. These villagers then work within their own communities, thus making them less dependent on "outside" skills. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
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  • (L-R) International students of the Barefoot Solar Engineering class, Kingzing Chodon (aged 30) from Lour, Bhutan; Precious Molobane Mamogale, aged 42, from Fetakgomo, Lompopo, South Africa; and Matildah Chikwata (aged 43) from Chibaya, Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe, pose for a group portrait in class. They are all students in a 6 month course in solar engineering in the Barefoot College in Tilonia village, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
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  • An Indian staff collects exercise books from the international students in the solar engineering class in the Barefoot College in Tilonia village, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India. Barefoot college preferably hires local villagers to be trained up to be staff of the college. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
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  • Villagers go about their daily affairs near the Barefoot College in Tilonia village, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India on 1st April 2011. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
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  • Santosh Devi, aged 19, poses for a portrait on the rooftop with her solar panels. She graduated 2 years ago from the solar engineering course of the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India. She has since solar powered 20 homes in her village, Balaji Ki Dhani, Bauli, Nagur District, Rajasthan, making it the first village in India to be 100% solar powered in all houses. Above this, she does all maintenance for the neighbouring village, Gudda Ki Dhani, where the previous male solar engineer had left the village to find unrelated work in the city. Barefoot College prefers training women to be solar engineers for this reason that they have higher chances of staying in the village instead of moving to the cities. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
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  • Santosh Devi, aged 19, poses for a portrait in her workshop at home. She graduated 2 years ago from the solar engineering course of the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India. She has since solar powered 20 homes in her village, Balaji Ki Dhani, Bauli, Nagur District, Rajasthan, making it the first village in India to be 100% solar powered in all houses. Above this, she does all maintenance for the neighbouring village, Gudda Ki Dhani, where the previous male solar engineer had left the village to find unrelated work in the city. Barefoot College prefers training women to be solar engineers for this reason that they have higher chances of staying in the village instead of moving to the cities. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
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  • Santosh Devi, aged 19, makes tea in her kitchen. She graduated 2 years ago from the solar engineering course of the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India. She has since solar powered 20 homes in her village, Balaji Ki Dhani, Bauli, Nagur District, Rajasthan, making it the first village in India to be 100% solar powered in all houses. Above this, she does all maintenance for the neighbouring village, Gudda Ki Dhani, where the previous male solar engineer had left the village to find unrelated work in the city. Barefoot College prefers training women to be solar engineers for this reason that they have higher chances of staying in the village instead of moving to the cities. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
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  • Views of the Barefoot College in Tilonia village, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
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  • Views of the Barefoot College in Tilonia village, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
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  • Kamla Devi, aged 38, from Shironj, Ajmer, Rajasthan, was Rajasthan's first woman Barefoot Solar Engineer. She had become a Barefoot Solar Engineer 17 years ago and has been practicing since. Now, besides being a solar engineer, she empowers other women and teaches at the Barefoot College in Tilonia village, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
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  • Rinchen Namgyal, aged 19, carries burning juniper around the room for the daily morning prayers in the ancient family gonpa on the roof of the 200 year old house on 3rd June 2009.. .They run a home stay program in Ulley Valley, a scattered village of only 5 houses, one school, 38 people, 4 school children, and 4 pet dogs. The village is not accessible by road. The homestay program is managed by 'Snow Leopard Conservation Organisation', an NGO that helps families in the mountains that face constant snow leopard attacks on their livestock...Leh town is 3505m above sea level, in the Indian Himalayan mountains. Multimedia travel story assignment to Leh, Ladakh with Scott Macmillan.  Photo by Suzanne Lee / For The National
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  • While her daughter, Dolka plays nearby, on 2nd June 2009, Yangchan Tsering irrigates the fileds next to her house, one of only 3 houses scattered on one side of the Valley of Ulley. Ulley Valley is a valley with a scattered village of only 5 houses, one school, 38 people, 4 school children, and 4 pet dogs. The village is not accessible by road. The valley of Ladakh is located in the Indian Himalayas, in the northern state of Jammu and Kashmir. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Rinchen's mother, Tsemang Dolma makes dough bread for breakfast in the 200 year old kitchen of Rinchen's house on 2nd June 2009. They run a home stay program in Ulley Valley, a scattered village of only 5 houses, one school, 38 people, 4 school children, and 4 pet dogs. The village is not accessible by road. The homestay program is managed by 'Snow Leopard Conservation Organisation', an NGO that helps families in the mountains that face constant snow leopard attacks on their live stock. Leh town is 3505m above sea level, in the Indian Himalayan mountains, in the valley of Ladakh, located in the Indian Himalayas, in the northern state of Jammu and Kashmir. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Yangchan Tsering milks a yak on 2nd June 2009 as her daughter Dolka plays in the fields. Their relatives run a home stay program in Ulley Valley, a scattered village of only 5 houses, one school, 38 people, 4 school children, and 4 pet dogs. The village is not accessible by road. The homestay program is managed by 'Snow Leopard Conservation Organisation', an NGO that helps families in the mountains that face constant snow leopard attacks on their live stock. Ulley is located in the region of Ladakh, located in the Indian Himalayas, in the northern state of Jammu and Kashmir. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • The only school teacher in the whole valley of Ulley cooks dinner in a 200 year old kitchen on 1st June 2009. Ulley is a scattered village of only 5 houses, one school, 38 people, 4 school children, and 4 pet dogs. The village is not accessible by road. Ulley is located in the region of Ladakh, located in the Indian Himalayas, in the northern state of Jammu and Kashmir. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Scenery on 1st June 2009 of the Himalayan valleys of Ulley and Ladakh, Jammu & Kashmir, India.  Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • A camel cart is manoeuvred through the fields where guar is being grown in a Demo Plot, to collect harvests in Runiya Badabaas village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 23, 2016. Non-Profit Organisation Technoserve works with Guar farmers in Bikaner to provide technical farming knowledge to them, improving their crop yield through good agricultural practices. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Technoserve's Field Extension Officer, Surender Singh, collects data and feedback from guar farmer Bhanwarlal Sharma, 60, at his farmhouse in Bamanwali village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 24th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with farmers in Bikaner, providing technical support and training, causing increased yield from implementation of good agricultural practices as well as a switch to using better grains better suited to the given climate. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Technoserve's Field Extension Officer, Surender Singh, collects data and feedback from guar farmers Bhanwarlal Sharma, 60, and his son, Arjun Sharma, 28, at their farmhouse in Bamanwali village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 24th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with farmers in Bikaner, providing technical support and training, causing increased yield from implementation of good agricultural practices as well as a switch to using better grains better suited to the given climate. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Technoserve's Field Extension Officer, Surender Singh, collects data and feedback from guar farmer Bhanwarlal Sharma, 60, at his farmhouse in Bamanwali village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 24th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with farmers in Bikaner, providing technical support and training, causing increased yield from implementation of good agricultural practices as well as a switch to using better grains better suited to the given climate. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Technoserve's Field Extension Officer, Surender Singh, collects data and feedback from guar farmers Bhanwarlal Sharma, 60, and his son, Arjun Sharma, 28, at their farmhouse in Bamanwali village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 24th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with farmers in Bikaner, providing technical support and training, causing increased yield from implementation of good agricultural practices as well as a switch to using better grains better suited to the given climate. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Technoserve's Assistant Project Manager, Piyush Tiwari, discusses plant diseases with guar farmer Bhanwarlal Sharma, 60, and his son, Arjun Sharma, 28, in their agriculture field in Bamanwali village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 24th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with farmers in Bikaner, providing technical support and training, causing increased yield from implementation of good agricultural practices as well as a switch to using better grains better suited to the given climate. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Guar farmer Bhanwarlal Sharma, 60, and his son, Arjun Sharma, 28, inspect the health of their crop in their agriculture field in Bamanwali village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 24th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with farmers in Bikaner, providing technical support and training, causing increased yield from implementation of good agricultural practices as well as a switch to using better grains better suited to the given climate. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Guar farmer Bhanwarlal Sharma, 60, poses for a portrait with his wife, Mirga Devi, 58, and son, Arjun Sharma, 28, in his agriculture field in Bamanwali village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 24th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with farmers in Bikaner, providing technical support and training, causing increased yield from implementation of good agricultural practices as well as a switch to using better grains better suited to the given climate. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Technoserve's Assistant Project Manager, Piyush Tiwari, discusses plant diseases with guar farmer Bhanwarlal Sharma, 60, and his son, Arjun Sharma, 28, in their agriculture field in Bamanwali village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 24th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with farmers in Bikaner, providing technical support and training, causing increased yield from implementation of good agricultural practices as well as a switch to using better grains better suited to the given climate. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Guar farmer Bhanwarlal Sharma, 60, poses for a portrait in his agriculture field in Bamanwali village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 24th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with farmers in Bikaner, providing technical support and training, causing increased yield from implementation of good agricultural practices as well as a switch to using better grains better suited to the given climate. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Guar farmer Bhanwarlal Sharma, 60, poses for a portrait in his agriculture field in Bamanwali village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 24th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with farmers in Bikaner, providing technical support and training, causing increased yield from implementation of good agricultural practices as well as a switch to using better grains better suited to the given climate. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Guar farmer Bhanwarlal Sharma, 60, poses for a portrait in his agriculture field in Bamanwali village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 24th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with farmers in Bikaner, providing technical support and training, causing increased yield from implementation of good agricultural practices as well as a switch to using better grains better suited to the given climate. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Guar farmer Bhanwarlal Sharma, 60, poses for a portrait in his agriculture field in Bamanwali village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 24th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with farmers in Bikaner, providing technical support and training, causing increased yield from implementation of good agricultural practices as well as a switch to using better grains better suited to the given climate. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Guar farmer Bhanwarlal Sharma, 60, poses for a portrait in his agriculture field in Bamanwali village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 24th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with farmers in Bikaner, providing technical support and training, causing increased yield from implementation of good agricultural practices as well as a switch to using better grains better suited to the given climate. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Traders bid for guar harvests from piles that farmers bring in to be auctioned off in Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 24th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with farmers in Bikaner, providing technical support and training, causing increased yield from implementation of good agricultural practices as well as a switch to using better grains better suited to the given climate. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Traders bid for guar harvests from piles as farmers bring in their harvests to be auctioned off in Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 24th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with farmers in Bikaner, providing technical support and training, causing increased yield from implementation of good agricultural practices as well as a switch to using better grains better suited to the given climate. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Traders bid for guar harvests from piles that farmers bring in to be auctioned off in Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 24th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with farmers in Bikaner, providing technical support and training, causing increased yield from implementation of good agricultural practices as well as a switch to using better grains better suited to the given climate. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Traders bid for guar harvests from piles that farmers bring in to be auctioned off in Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 24th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with farmers in Bikaner, providing technical support and training, causing increased yield from implementation of good agricultural practices as well as a switch to using better grains better suited to the given climate. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Traders bid for guar harvests from piles as farmers bring in their harvests to be auctioned off in Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 24th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with farmers in Bikaner, providing technical support and training, causing increased yield from implementation of good agricultural practices as well as a switch to using better grains better suited to the given climate. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Farmers bring their harvests of guar into an auction centre in Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 24th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with farmers in Bikaner, providing technical support and training, causing increased yield from implementation of good agricultural practices as well as a switch to using better grains better suited to the given climate. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Traders bid for guar harvests from piles that farmers bring in to be auctioned off in Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 24th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with farmers in Bikaner, providing technical support and training, causing increased yield from implementation of good agricultural practices as well as a switch to using better grains better suited to the given climate. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Traders bid for guar harvests from piles that farmers bring in to be auctioned off in Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 24th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with farmers in Bikaner, providing technical support and training, causing increased yield from implementation of good agricultural practices as well as a switch to using better grains better suited to the given climate. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Traders bid for guar harvests from piles that farmers bring in to be auctioned off in Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 24th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with farmers in Bikaner, providing technical support and training, causing increased yield from implementation of good agricultural practices as well as a switch to using better grains better suited to the given climate. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Piyush Tiwari, Assistant Project Manager at Technoserve, provides field training to a group of guar farmers in the Technoserve Guar Demo Plot in Kheeyara village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 24th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with farmers in Bikaner, providing technical support and training, causing increased yield from implementation of good agricultural practices as well as a switch to using better grains better suited to the given climate. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Piyush Tiwari, Assistant Project Manager at Technoserve, provides field training to a group of guar farmers in the Technoserve Guar Demo Plot in Kheeyara village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 24th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with farmers in Bikaner, providing technical support and training, causing increased yield from implementation of good agricultural practices as well as a switch to using better grains better suited to the given climate. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • A group of guar farmers attends a Technoserve field training in the Technoserve Guar Demo Plot in Kheeyara village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 24th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with farmers in Bikaner, providing technical support and training, causing increased yield from implementation of good agricultural practices as well as a switch to using better grains better suited to the given climate. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • A group of women who are a part of Technoserve's kitchen garden program tend to chilli plants in a kitchen garden in Bamanwali village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 24th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with guar farmer's wives in Bikaner, providing technical support and training for edible gardening, to improve the nutritional quality of their food and relieve financial stress on farming communities. Photograph by Suzanne Lee
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  • Sunayana Ingle, an associate at Technoserve, provides field training to a group of women who are a part of Technoserve's kitchen garden program, in a kitchen garden in Bamanwali village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 24th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with guar farmer's wives in Bikaner, providing technical support and training for edible gardening, to improve the nutritional quality of their food and relieve financial stress on farming communities. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Sunayana Ingle, an associate at Technoserve, provides field training to a group of women who are a part of Technoserve's kitchen garden program, in a kitchen garden in Bamanwali village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 24th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with guar farmer's wives in Bikaner, providing technical support and training for edible gardening, to improve the nutritional quality of their food and relieve financial stress on farming communities. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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  • Sunayana Ingle, an associate at Technoserve, provides field training to a group of women who are a part of Technoserve's kitchen garden program, in a kitchen garden in Bamanwali village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on October 24th, 2016. Non-profit organisation Technoserve works with guar farmer's wives in Bikaner, providing technical support and training for edible gardening, to improve the nutritional quality of their food and relieve financial stress on farming communities. Photograph by Suzanne Lee for Technoserve
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