Hope grown: seeds and some rain bring promise to Cupo, Mozambique Cupo –a small town, in the Southeast of Mozambique - no longer bears any resemblance to its long-established “fields of green” reputation. Crops have failed, and the residents do not have enough food to eat or sell. Finding water is a daily struggle because the village wells, even the deeper ones, have run dry. People now have to endure a half-day’s walk just to find drinking water. After three years of drought, people in Cupo work twice as hard to eke out half a living. But, for the first time in many years, it rained, and every resident rejoiced. Especially because this coincided with distributions of drought-resistant seeds and tools by CARE, to help villagers cope with the extreme climatic changes. One such resident is 32-year-old Martha Chiruca: “This year I will produce my most plentiful crop after three years without great rain. We hope it continues raining as we now have seeds to cultivate. Wi...