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Announcing Our Second Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Supporting Small-Scale Farmers Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

She is an enthusiastic and technical professional with over 15 years of experience in the humanitarian and development environments in Asia, Horn, and the Eastern Africa region related to food and nutrition security, community nutrition, inclusion planning, design, implementation, technical oversight, monitoring, and evaluation.

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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

They are all part of TechSoup Asia , which serves charities in the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand — and now Vietnam and Indonesia. In its effort to help local people to meet local needs, LIN aims to advance a more efficient and responsive philanthropic environment and strengthen the communities.

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Microsoft YouthSpark: A New Chapter in Citizenship at Microsoft

Tech Soup

In Brazil, approximately 40% of firms have difficulty finding qualified staff to fill vacancies due to low quality education. In Asia, we see a large number of working poor, particularly in rural. environments, and a lack of technical or vocational training to open new. In Asia, 70% of working youth. opportunities.

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Fair Trade Certified: An Interview with Paul Rice of TransFair USA

Have Fun - Do Good

They're aware that poverty around the world is not diminishing, they're aware that environment degradation is a looming problem. PR: I was in Brazil a few months ago, and in this village in Brazil there are about eighty or ninety families that are all very small coffee growers. Climate change is on people's minds.

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Snapshot of Worldwide Electronics Recycling 2013

Tech Soup

According to the International Environmental Technology Center of the United Nations Environment Program. This is true for most of Asia where the problem is becoming critical. According to Park Young-Woo of the United Nations Environment Program, the Asia-Pacific region now produces more than half of global e-waste.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

Have Fun - Do Good

My friends in Burma and in the Amazon were really risking their lives in the face of the military troops, in both cases in the Amazon and in Southeast Asia, so I felt like this is something that I'm not going to die doing, and I just started. They came from the favelas of Brazil, from Alaska, from the Bronx, immigrant women from the Bronx.

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[VIDEO] Using WhatsApp to Increase Engagement with Multicultural Communities

Bloomerang

So this is really important in areas that, so, for example, in Latin America, in certain parts of Asia, in Sub-Saharan Africa, that the internet is not as fast. not interactive, but like more comfortable, a comfortable environment for people to participate? And now WhatsApp is rolling out a payment feature in Brazil.