Tando Allahyar, Pakistan

Champa Chanbeli, who trains others to make earthen stoves lifted off the floor, comes out from her flood-resistant hut at Sanjar Chang village. Architect Yasmeen Lari is helping to fortify Pakistan’s rural communities, who are living on the frontline of climate change. The few pilot settlements already constructed are credited with saving families from the worst of the catastrophic monsoon flooding that put a third of the country underwater last year

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