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![Fiji: HK kids give village school a hand up](https://www.crossroads.org.hk/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Fiji-base-photo2-768x568.jpg)
Fiji: HK kids give village school a hand up
Behind the perfect beaches and five star resorts, much of Fiji’s rural population lives in poverty, with many unable to...
![A Summer to serve: Crossroads’ 2014 interns](https://www.crossroads.org.hk/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/intern-base-photo-768x568.jpg)
A Summer to serve: Crossroads’ 2014 interns
Standing before Joseph was a woman in crisis. After being violently abused by her husband, the woman had taken...
![Hearts and Hands: Joining hands with China’s deaf artisans](https://www.crossroads.org.hk/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/HHrabbit-768x568.jpg)
Hearts and Hands: Joining hands with China’s deaf artisans
Lei Mei, of China, was 25 when she suddenly lost her hearing. She’s not sure exactly how it happened,...
![Philippines: Healing after Haiyan](https://www.crossroads.org.hk/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Philippines-reconstruction-base-image1-768x568.jpg)
Philippines: Healing after Haiyan
Two families in Barangay Bacabac, Philippines were huddled together in a village building as the worst typhoon in the country’s...
![Kenya: Korogocho’s trash-pickers](https://www.crossroads.org.hk/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/DSC09246-768x568.jpg)
Kenya: Korogocho’s trash-pickers
At first, the gigantic garbage dump outside Korogocho slum in Kenya looks as you’d expect: hideous, grey mountains of...
![Morgan Stanley investing in Children](https://www.crossroads.org.hk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/11_Making-Flash-Cards-1024x768.jpg)
Morgan Stanley investing in Children
“The majority of schools in rural Nepal are inadequately resourced,” says the NGO, First Steps Himalaya. “Children often have to sit...
![Christmas cards – Peru](https://www.crossroads.org.hk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/DSC_01691-1024x680.jpg)
Christmas cards – Peru
“Those were the years of violence,” said Juliana, a Peruvian woman who works with craft collective Kuyanakuy. She reflected on...
![Not just a piece of cloth](https://www.crossroads.org.hk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/1-Hard-at-Work-1024x685.jpg)
Not just a piece of cloth
Extreme taboo surrounds the process of menstruation in some parts of India, says local NGO, Goonj. What options do women have, then,...
![Dancing Goats and fair trade coffee](https://www.crossroads.org.hk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/IMG_2153-1024x575.jpg)
Dancing Goats and fair trade coffee
Dancing goats are, it would seem, responsible for the world’s love of coffee. According to legend, Kaldi, an Ethiopian goatherd...