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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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Ultimately, it takes a willingness to allow some failures to occur, but allow those failures to be educational for a community. We are focused on preparing individuals to eventually return to their home countries and to help rebuild, and that's human capacity building. I think that is something that we all learn growing up.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

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So often, government control, or just lack of access to information and media, prevents people from really being able to be educated and informed about serious issues that are going on around them. We are also in discussions in Peru, in Burkina Faso, and in Botswana as well. BB: How can listeners help? She had four children.