The film chronicles her transformation, following her from her village to the hospital and home again.
When Siti left her village in Indonesia six months ago, the local economy was in shambles.
One woman's body was found in a river an hour from her village, booby-trapped with hand-grenades.
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Juma had lost most of her family in the attack on her village.
She cannot now go back to her village or claim her property back.
Now, she tries to make a living by buying produce in Harare then selling it back in her village.
But she remains despondent and is afraid to go back to her village.
But she said so many men from her village had died fighting the Tigers that she had to come.
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Stopping to chat under the shade of a thick-stalked banana plant, Kayaba says malaria is the biggest health problem in her village.
She's one of the first she is one of the first women from her village ever to receive a college education.
No celebratory flags fly in her village, as they do in Colombo.
Lundy has been offered proposals by older men and boys, but she doesn't want to end up like so many girls in her village.
Valarmadhy, as a widow with parents and three teenage boys to look after, loves this work although she admits many in her village are bewildered.
Gnanawathie, a migrant to Colombo from central Sri Lanka, where the army has recruited heavily, laments the mounting number of dead youths from her village.
In March, a 35-year-old woman in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, one of India's poorest, told police she had been raped in the fields around her village.
It told the story of a woman accused of being a "soul eater" and subjected to trial by a council of elders after a child died in her village.
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Her village has joined forces with others to sell in bulk to the three wool processing firms in the southern city of Arequipa, in an effort to expand their bargaining power.
Ms Mathieson's family were shown a transcript of the call to her village ambulance station, which confirmed that while the ambulance technician knew about the incident, he was not formally asked to attend.
She said that in her village the bridegroom was expected to take bushmeat to his in-laws as part of his dowry, but the zoo visit had shown her that there could be other alternatives to bushmeat.
But two years ago, my friend Cristina Di Benigno invited me to lunch in her village near Corvara, a tiny, little-known ruin of a town in Abruzzo, about an hour by car from the port city of Pescara.
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The family's appeal for help was guided by Tekakwitha's own history, as she was left with a badly scarred face as a child after an outbreak of smallpox ravaged her village, taking the lives of her parents and brother.
In one of the refugee camps in Chad in 2005, we met Fatima, forty-two, who described how she had to escape her village of Girgira in western Darfur after her mother, husband, and five children were all killed by the Janjaweed militias.
One of the villagers in Mpala told Eden how excited she was to have electricity in her village for the first time, and that she dreamed of no longer needing to forage for firewood at the end of a long work day.
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Mobile financial services also allow a talented village seamstress to obtain a microfinance loan, enabling her to purchase another sewing machine, employ other women in her village, and provide for her family instead of relying on aid or depriving her children of basic education.
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She might have seen him every single day on the road between her village and Madadeni or Dannhauser, but she would have had no idea who he was, not even if he had happened to stroll into their dilapidated shack one day and introduce himself.
Bodner's birth father also died there but his mother, Roza Gottesman-Berger, not only survived several Nazi concentration camps, but returned to her home village of Stroino on the Ukraine-Hungary border, hoping to find her children.
Life was so bad in her fishing village that even rice porridge was a luxury.
But now she's afraid to move back to her home village on the border.
Her native village is now a hotbed of an ultraconservative strain of Islam known as Salafism or Wahabbism.
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