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SAP Gives Back

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SAP's donation program is part of their overall social benefit efforts , which aim to accomplish the following goals: Impacting 1,000,000 lives by focusing on meeting basic needs, enhancing education, and creating sustainable growth and economic opportunity.

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The Faces of International Development

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Do these same sites appear the same to those in Ghana? Is the rapid growth of Information Communication and Technology (ICT) more important than the basic social needs of health, education, etc.? Empowerment is key. Everyone had a mission and wanted to achieve their end goal.

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

Have Fun - Do Good

Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing. I went to 15 countries on five continents, and interviewed and photographed 129 women. Can you talk a little bit about why they used arts, and why it was an effective tool?

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This time I had three agenda items for my conversations with congressional staff: Advocating for funding for special education. It was the third Africa Forum I’ve attended: I went to Accra, Ghana, in 2011 and South Africa in 2004. This time, I had the benefit of help. Bookshare was there with two offers.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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To me, that sort of sums up something very special about the way in which we try to make these resources accessible to women-led initiatives that are often some of the most creative that we are seeing on issues ranging from the environment, to health, to education, to building peace and sustainable communities around the world.

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