Lynne Patterson Brightens the Futures of Struggling Women with Pro Mujer
Maria Alejandra Rodriguez, a single mother of three from Nicaragua, begins to cry when she speaks about the past. As a street vendor in the village of Jinotepe, she struggled every day to support her children. Some days, she fed them a bowl of rice. Other days, they went hungry. At one point, they didn't go to school for a year because she couldn't afford to buy them shoes.
"I don't know how we did it," she says now, wiping away tears.
Things took a turn for Ms. Rodriguez in 2006, thanks to a