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For 25 years now, GiGi Desaulniers has traveled back and forth to India several times each year to help poor women in that country break free of the extreme poverty that shackles them as surely as a ball and chain. To earn a living, the women she works with break rocks by hand, literally, the kind of rocks used in railroad beds and to build roads. READ MORE

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