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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 ). I was in high school, I was 17 and my first trip to Africa was to Kenya with my family, just on a picture safari. The first time I went to Africa I was 17.

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[VIDEO] Using WhatsApp to Increase Engagement with Multicultural Communities

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But like I said, you could listen to her sharing wisdom on podcasts, and webinars, and events and fill, you know, hours of your day and it would be worth it. We have Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe. Here are some pictures.” In fact, for you, environmental folks listening, special focus on environmental orgs. So this is.

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Small Groups Can Change the World: An Interview with Marianne Manilov of The Engage Network

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Below is an edited transcript of an interview, which you can also listen to on the Big Vision Podcast. You hear them speak, or you read their book, or you listen to your podcast, and then you generally write to that person, or you go up to them, rush them at the end of a speech and say, "I'm a student, I want to get involved."

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Solutionary Women: Jessica Jackley Flannery of Kiva

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Below is an edited transcript of my interview with Jessica, which you can also hear on the Big Vision Podcast. She made her payment and here's how her business is doing, and here's a picture of the new goat that she got. What is Kiva? Kiva's mission is to connect people, through lending, for the purpose of poverty alleviation.

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Off the Mat, Into the World: An Interview with Seane Corn

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On March 5, 2009 I interviewed yoga teacher and co-Founder of Off the Mat, Into the World, Seane Corn , for the Big Vision Podcast shortly after she returned from a trip to Cambodia with participants from Off the Mat, Into the World's Seva Challenge. You can also listen to the interview on the Big Vision Podcast. *

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Support Women Survivors of War with $27/month

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If not director of a school, I would like to be someone of importance, someone of value again.'"--Honorata (pictured left) about her experience with Women for Women International. Denise of the Denise in Africa blog visited one of the program's facilities in Kigali.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

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I asked four of the women who I had previously interviewed for the Big Vision Podcast to share what brought them to their work, and their advice for the graduate and undergraduate women who attended the conference. I also produce several podcasts, one of which is called the Big Vision Podcast.

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