What Remains
by Ryan Umberger
The story of poverty is the story of women. When seventy percent of those living in extreme poverty are female, how could it be otherwise? It’s little wonder then that fourteen-year-old Asunta Josaphat, who was born and raised in a rural African village, who received no education, and who was treated as a burden, never once thought that her life would amount to anything but struggle and hardship.