Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 7, 2012

The senior social entrepreneurs in the audience were listening in rapt attention. I used the example of Kristen Cibelli, one of our field human rights workers, who got a mini-grant to go to meet with grassroots human rights groups in Liberia. The social entrepreneurs had rapid-fire questions: How can I do that?

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Fund Social Liberia Money 154

Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 18, 2009

The winner will go on an international reporting trip with him to focus attention on the problems of global poverty, and its solutions. Possible destinations this year are Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Liberia and/or Ghana. Past winners traveled to Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Rwanda, and Congo.

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Guinea-Bissau Central African Republic Guinea Liberia 40

EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Before her historic flight, Jemison served as a Peace Corps Medical Officer in Sierra Leone and Liberia, where she oversaw the medical system that serviced Peace Corps and U.S. With the launch of the Endeavor Shuttle, engineer, physician, and astronaut Mae Jemison became the first African American woman in space in 1992. Embassy personnel.

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Story Angola Sierra Leone Artist 133

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APRIL 2, 2008

I just saw a remarkable film made about a grantee organization that the Global Fund had supported for many years in Liberia. We have been seeing an increased attention that women's rights groups have been bringing to this whole question of globalization and migration, and how women workers are being affected by this.

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Global Fund Interview United States 44