The following year Makoni successfully procured a piece of land and opened the organization's first empowerment village, designed to provide a haven for girls who have been abused.

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At another village in Lesotho a logistical glitch prevented corn seeds donated by an aid organization from arriving in time for the planting season.

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Another report, by the militant Jharkhand Organization Against Radiation (JOAR), says 47% of village women have complained of disrupted menstrual cycles, and 18% say they have suffered either miscarriages or given birth to stillborn babies in the past five years.

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The village has electricity, motorcycles, and bluejeans, but the social tissue of conversation and organization has been stripped out to emphasize the minuscule, the timeless, and the universal.

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The organization pointed to a video shot on April 10 in a store in the village of Nuwaidrat where police officers failed to stop a mob from ransacking the store.

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