Landesa was featured on the front page of the The Seattle Times print edition and on their website. The three articles can be accessed here:
Seattle-based nonprofit plants seeds of hope in India | Front-page story on Landesa working with girls and micro-plots in West Bengal, India
UW professor fights poverty one land plot at a time | Profile of Landesa founder, Roy Prosterman
Picture This: Seattle’s Landesa aims to help rural girls in India | Photography slideshow by Erika Shultz
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