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Wangari Maathai, Dining for Women & LA

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Marsha Wallace, the founder of Dining for Women , contacted me after reading some of the posts I had written about Dining for Women here and on BlogHer , and invited my husband and I to be Dining for Women's guest at the event. At the time, Maathai was a member of the National Council of Women of Kenya (NCWK).

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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. Cross-posted from BlogHer.

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

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Now what about painted a picture on a napkin in a restaurant? Has anyone ever seen giant puppets in the streets for a protest, or seen pictures of that? I worked in East Africa with an organization called Care Kenya, working with women around sustainable agriculture issues. Can I just see? laughter] OK. laughter] OK. Not really?

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