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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

Have Fun - Do Good

Empowerment for our participants comes from connecting to an inner wisdom that is often kept hidden from public view, but is a place of extraordinary innate strength and well being. We are also funding very special after school art classes in Afghanistan through our partnership with Trust In Education.

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Break the Bias: Changing the Game for Girls & Women

Saleforce Nonprofit

The COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately affecting women and girls around the world, which threatens the gains made in the past decades in advancing women’s economic empowerment, health, rights, and safety. The takeover by the Taliban in Afghanistan earlier this year instantly sent the future of girls and women in that country into chaos.

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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

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A disproportionate amount of women veterans are women of color, and many of them have just recently returned from Iraq or Afghanistan and are looking to get involved with the peace moment, and with their own political development, but also with their own healing, and what it means to heal after going through the incredible trauma of war.

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Collective Lens: Photography for Social Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Another contributor to the site is Natalia who has shared some compelling photos of children beggars in from Afghanistan. Or check out the photos from Kathy Adams who runs Empowerment International and has been sharing photos from Nicaragua and Costa Rica that show the impact of her organization's work.

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The Future Today: Empowering youth via social media

Amy Sample Ward

Youth Empowerment with Social Media. If you are looking for more examples about social media and communications technologies applied to youth empowerment, here are some additional links/groups to check out: [link] (social media used as outreach about teen dating violence). View more presentations from Amy Sample ward.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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I like to remind people of the fact that for $50 you can put a young girl through school in Afghanistan for a year. How do you know that you are making a difference or an impact; how do you measure that? I think that's one thing people could be doing, spreading the word, those of you who that do that for a living.

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