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A painting of a father and son in a dry field at sunset, with mountains in the background.

A painting of a father and son in a dry field at sunset, with mountains in the background.

In Eritrea, a farming family’s son asks his father what they should plant in their small field. Hopeful, the son suggests, *"Our neighbors grow garlic—why don’t we do the same? It could change our future!"* But his father ignores him, resigned to their cycle of poverty. See more