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Go Holiday Shopping with Your Global Girlfriend

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Global Girlfriend's founder, Stacey Edgar, received a Microsoft Start Something Amazing Awards Honorable Mention , and was named the 2005 Aveeno Woman with Organic Style.

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Posts from the Skoll World Forum

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

At last night's awards ceremonies, the highlight was seeing four short films on four of the Skoll Social entrepreneurs. They are definitely tackling market failure in the publishing industry: in Nepal they are now the second largest publisher of children's books in Nepali.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

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They came from the favelas of Brazil, from Alaska, from the Bronx, immigrant women from the Bronx. You can just go on there and you can be talking immediately to women in Bolivia, and in Nepal, and drawing strength, courage, and support from them, and vice versa. They're coming from Nepal, the Philippines, and Bolivia.

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