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Women, Girls, Education and Global Health: Interview with Carinne Brody

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When a girl receives an education, she stays healthy, HIV negative, marries when she chooses, and raises a healthy family. ." ~ Carinne Brody This month's Big Vision Podcast interview is special because it's part of the Girl Effect Blogging Campaign organized by Tara Sophia Mohr. You may have seen The Girl Effect videos.

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President's Update: Summer 2008

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Department of Education gave us a major award on September 28, 2007. We want to ensure that every student with a disability no longer has the handicap of lacking textbooks or other important educational material. We've also had major efforts in Burma, Sri Lanka and Guatemala, to name a few; efforts we expect to continue this year.

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Preventing Human Trafficking: An Interview with Christina Arnold

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We do a lot of education here in the Washington, DC area, actually all over the United States. We've partnered with the Partnership for Trafficking Prevention to provide micro-credit loans and education in these border towns. I also lived in Sri Lanka right about the time that sex tourism became a big deal, and saw it firsthand.

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Training Afghani NGOs in Cambodia

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You can read about some of the NGOs that have used Martus to back up their data in Guatemala, Sri Lanka, the Phillippines, and Colombia. This information also lends itself to many other programs and is now used in schools around Cambodia to educate youth about the Khmer Rouge.

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