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How to Find Your Way to Have Fun and Do Good

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Keep a gratitude journal, or make monthly gratitude collages Participate in a fundraising walk for a cause I care about, like Women for Women International's Run for Congo Women. Sew something that people need, like pillowcases for the 1 Million Pillowcase Challenge. Cooking (especially new recipes) Baking (especially cupcakes!)

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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Kjerstin Erickson is one of those people "shiny" people who lights up a room. Saturday, June 20th is World Refugee Day , and this year's theme is "Real People, Real Needs." We like to refer to it as a "people-powered" development process. Obviously, what's good about it is that you're empowering people.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

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She went from being somebody's servant to somebody who when she walks down the street of her community, people stop her and shake her hand and thank her for the stories that she is telling, or ask, 'When are you going to interview me? You can listen to the interview on the Big Vision Podcast , or read an edited transcript below.

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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. By harnessing that passion of other people who saw the same vision, and wanted to make it happen, I built a pro bono team for the better part of three years. What advice do you have for people to navigate those growing pains?

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Interview with Zainab Salbi, Founder of Women for Women International

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I was thrilled when Zainab Salbi, Women for Women International's Founder and CEO, agreed to an interview with me for the Big Vision Podcast. The women that we are servicing in Congo, where, if they are lucky, they get $0.20 The women that we are servicing in Congo, where, if they are lucky, they get $0.20

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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.

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Support Women Survivors of War with $27/month

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A month ago I listened to Christine Karumba, the Country Director for Women for Women International in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, tell Honorata's story on the Voices on Genocide Prevention podcast. --Honorata (pictured left) about her experience with Women for Women International. And walked. And walked.

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