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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

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In Uganda, a group of young people made incredible, heartfelt postcards filled with glitter and cut up magazine pictures to send to women in the Congo. She then went on to hold several Traveling Postcards workshops both in her own community, and then in Kenya! How can Have Fun, Do Good readers get involved with Traveling Postcards?

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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After meeting her at the Global Engagement Summer last spring, I knew I wanted to grab her for an interview before she became too famous. He ran into Congo. He was there for about a month, and then war in Congo was breaking out. Kjerstin Erickson is one of those people "shiny" people who lights up a room. It had been bombed.

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The Social Media Response to Disaster in Haiti

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Ushahidi was originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

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You can listen to my interview with Jensine on the Big Vision Podcast website, or on iTunes. We even get Skypes from a woman from Kenya named Leah, who was one of our first grassroots women reporters. Tags: Big Vision Podcast interview. I've posted an edited transcript below. I've got this. I'm spreading it now.

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Arts Activist Naomi Natale and The One Million Bones Project

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." - Naomi Natale, One Million Bones Naomi Natale is the founding artist behind One Million Bones , a collaborative art installation designed to recognize the millions of victims and survivors who have been killed or displaced by ongoing genocides and mass atrocities in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Burma. Tweet Share.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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I had the opportunity to interview her on March 6th for the Big Vision Podcast, and have included an edited transcript of the interview below. BB: You do a lot of interviews. It's long, but I hope you'll take time during your coffee or lunch break to read, or listen to her inspiring words. What do you wish people would ask you?

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