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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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FORGE serves 60,000 refugees in three different refugee camps in Southern Africa, and is an official operating partner of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR ). He ran into Congo. He was there for about a month, and then war in Congo was breaking out. Now 26, Erickson is still FORGE's Executive Director. It had been bombed.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

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Our office in Rwanda was supposed to be our next office opening anytime now, but because of the war in the Congo, visas and business licenses and things like that have been put on hold. Hopefully, the situation in the Congo resolves itself and doesn't cross the border into Rwanda, as it did in the '90s.