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Human Rights Trainings in Nigeria

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

A Guest Beneblog by Vijaya Tripathi As outreach coordinator for Martus , Benetech’s secure software application, I travel to many countries where human rights defenders need tools to gather, organize and back up information about human rights violations. My most recent visit to Nigeria confirmed this trend.

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Isaac from Nigeria makes mobile toilets and gives them to poor widows to use to generate income: "shit business is serious business." She also explained that the illiterate poor women she serves are more committed to literacy for their children than for themselves. I have had great chats with different social entrepreneurs.