Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

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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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

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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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. Indirect Content. Now for indirect content or Mash-ups. Reports of violence and of peace efforts could be placed via the web or mobile phone.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

He ran into Congo. He was there for about a month, and then war in Congo was breaking out. His idea is that he wants to recreate, in reverse, the walk that he made from Sudan all the way through Congo and into Zambia. He was coming back to his village, and he found that his village was in flames. It had been bombed.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

We even get Skypes from a woman from Kenya named Leah, who was one of our first grassroots women reporters. Then, the magazine is like a curation of all the best that's out there on our newswire, on our pipeline of content. I would have women writing, and they still do to this day, and say, "Thank you so much for creating this vision.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

Gorilla Doctors provides life-saving medical care to mountain and Grauer’s gorillas in Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Ewaso Lions is a focused conservation research project in Samburu, Kenya that is working to conserve Kenya’s lions while improving livelihoods of local people.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Via GlobalVoices , information about the ongoing crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where some 1 million people have fled the province of North Kivu. Newsfeed here.). An interesting, and hopefully valuable, effort to mitigate the situation is the "Ushahidi" web site for reporting of incidents of violence and abuse.

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