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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. TechSoup Asia Asia is a nonprofit collaborative venture between TechSoup Global and its local nonprofit organization partners, Connecting Up Australia and the Hong Kong Council of Social Service.

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

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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. It's about three hundred dollars a year to send a kid to high school in this region of Brazil. And when we say small in the coffee world, we're talking about one or two acres.

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Snapshot of Worldwide Electronics Recycling 2013

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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. Asia is also a good news-bad news story. This is similar to what is happening in Asia. or Latin America.

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[VIDEO] Using WhatsApp to Increase Engagement with Multicultural Communities

Bloomerang

all the green is WhatsApp. 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. And now WhatsApp is rolling out a payment feature in Brazil. It started only in Brazil. So this is. So we have Canada.