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The Power of Sport in Changing the World

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In 2005, a visit to Right to Play in Sierra Leone with skateboarding icon Tony Hawk changed my life. It wasn’t long after their civil war, and the program was working with child combatants, using sports to teach new skills. Among its successes: 72,878 children and young people became less socially isolated.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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APRIL 2, 2008

She has been the recipient of many awards, including Fast Company's 2007 Social Capitalist Award, and the League of Women Voters' Women Who Could Be President Award. I remember a very wonderful woman from Sierra Leone, Sarandabba, saying to me, "You know in a war, women are raped, but Mother Earth is also raped.

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