"the daughter-in-law who doesn’t speak"
Virginia Postrel links to
this fascinating article describing how $4000 peanut-grinding machines are improving the lives of women in Mali:
Girls who were kept home to help with the domestic work from dawn to dusk are now going to school. Mothers and grandmothers who would have spent a lifetime pounding and grinding now have the free time to take literacy courses and start up small businesses, or to expand family farming plots and nurture a cash crop such as rice.
Sure seems like a better way to help the third world than
loaning millions of dollars to despots.
