CHINA is concerned with helping ensure that all of its citizens have sufficient food and clothing,safe housing,and access to compulsory education and basic healthcare services as part of its poverty alleviation campaign.It is crucial that impoverished people are motivated and actively engaged in the undertaking.On a recent seven-day trip to Zhaojue County,Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture,Sichuan Province,I discovered that women of impoverished households are holding up half the sky for their families.The following are some highlights of their journeys out of poverty.