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Your #nptech Community Events Calendar for July

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Victoria, BC: NGO Summer Social. Kakamega, Kenya: kakamega mozilla -teaching web development. Christchurch and Dunedin, New Zealand: NetSquared Info Meetings: Christchurch and Dunedin. Portland, OR: Community-Building Classifieds with Switchboard. Thursday, July 10, 2014. Monday, July 14, 2014. Wednesday, July 16, 2014.

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Solutionary Women: DeeAnn Resk

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she worked on a program called the “African Peace and Development Initiative” at the NGO, World Learning for International Development , doing project backstopping for peacebuilding initiatives in East Africa. The Stand for Peace project teaches elementary school kids about diversity, respect, and peace. While in D.C.,

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Solutionary Women: Mei-ying Ho

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And in terms of how I got involved with SOUL, I was actually teaching for a very brief period in the Oakland middle schools. I think it’s important ‘cause we all have lessons to learn, but we all have lessons to teach, and I think sometimes we forget that it’s not easy for any one of us. So I’m only 26. organizing education politics

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Solutionary Women: Viet-Ly Nguyen

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Update: Viet-Ly was accepted into a teach credential program for this fall]. If you know a Solutionary Woman who works for a nonprofit or NGO who you think I should profile, please email me at britt at brittbravo dot com with their name, organization and contact info. actually have no idea, but I want to change it.

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Solutionary Women: Brande Jackson

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We also run after school programs, where we have curriculum that is based on teaching youth –mostly elementary and middle school aged kids – about community service and civics and cultural awareness. I lead my students when I teach. Getting to hang out and work with a team of people I love to be around is also a big perk!

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Alison Lowndes: Helping to care for children in Kenya

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She chronicles the program's start up on her personal blog ) She shares why she started her NGO, "The economic situation is far worse in Kenya than China so volunteer teachers were the only option. Notes Ali, "Blogs also allow much more "real" info as well as progress reports.

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Solutionary Women: Heddy Nam

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To that end, we recently held a conference at Columbia University called “Teaching About Conflict, Building Towards Peace: A Comparative Forum.” If you know a Solutionary Woman who works at a nonprofit or NGO who you think I should profile, please email me at britt at brittbravo dot com with their name, organization and contact info.

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