A morning in Jali reveals how water shapes everyday life in the village's women's garden. Learn how a community-led water system improvement will help more than 250 families strengthen food security, nutrition, and income.
When global aid contracts, programs may remain open on paper, but the real burden often shifts to clinics, local organizations, community workers, families, and unpaid caregivers. For Boston’s international development community, the urgent question is not only whether programs survive, but who pays the hidden cost of keeping them alive.
This article highlights how SM-VM in Togo strengthens maternal and child health systems through community-led education, improved referral coordination, and inclusive engagement of local stakeholders to reduce preventable deaths.
