Gomti Majhi, a middle-aged
tribal woman in this village, has survived terrible poverty.
Her husband died during the 1996 drought here in Orissa,
in eastern India, due to illness and inadequate nutriti.
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Reaching one billion
is not a cause for celebration in a country where one
half of the a dults are illiterate, more than half of
all children are undernourished, and one third of the
people live below the poverty line. more
