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Mother Tambellini of the Canossa Benedictine Convent in Dhulia, in north-central India, distributes beans provided by the generosity of Chicago Catholics to Indian women engaged in Food-For-Work programs sponsored by Catholic Relief Services in 1975. The beans are popular local food but are priced out of the range of the average poor Indian family. Thanks to a gift of more than $1 million sent by Cardinal John Cody and donated by the people of the Chicago archdiocese, CRS sent food and other supplies to India and a dozen countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
Kit Doyle

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