Mothers and money
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By Eliza Slater
Developing-world mothers, too poor to feed their families, are increasingly finding work abroad and sending the fruits of their labour to the children they will not raise.
Their payments, called remittances, are a significant part of an unofficial global aid network worth $325 billion last year. That’s three times the size of official foreign development aid spending, according to an article in The New York Times.
The women who choose this life aren’t just redefining the foreign...
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