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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 ). The model that FORGE takes is really a long-term impact framework. He ran into Congo. He was there for about a month, and then war in Congo was breaking out.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

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The third goal would be, on an international level, to take this news, that is really created from the inside out, as opposed to the traditional model of foreign correspondence, which is an outsider coming in, out into the world. I am working with a foundation right now trying to plan out our Africa initiative for the remainder of the year.

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How Nelson Mandela’s Legacy to Advance Access to Education Lives On

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In 1990, four months after being released from prison, Mandela visited Madison Park High School in Boston to address the community , and he expressed his deep concern about school dropouts both in South Africa and the U.S. The organisation personifies Mandela’s words, but also acts as inspiration for his legacy to live on in Africa.