Meet Lata Rong, the hope of livestock farmers in southwestern Bangladesh. To support her family and her children’s education, Lata took up a job as a vaccinator for livestock — a job typically done by men. “People didn't like me riding my motorbike, providing these services,” she said.

The United States is supporting the Ethiopian government in its efforts to expand community-based health insurance coverage to reach 80 percent of the eligible population in 80 percent of the country’s districts. So far, nearly 20 million people in now Ethiopia have health insurance coverage through the community-based health insurance program. Each year, approximately 75 percent of the insurance program members re-enroll in the program and benefit from the financial protection it provides.

Mohammad Mofizul Islam Gazi is a farmer and father of two living on the front lines of climate change in southern Bangladesh—one of the most vulnerable areas in all of Asia to cyclones and sea level rise. In his village of Sutarkhali, he harvested rice—the most popular crop in his home country—on a small plot of land from which he was able to feed his family. But May 25, 2009, changed his life forever. Cyclone Aila unleashed her fury across the southern coast of Bangladesh and into West Bengal in neighboring India, and claimed everything Gazi and his family owned.