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Do What You Can: National Week of Action for Darfur April 6-13

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I just have to do what I can. " -- Jerry Fowler, Executive Director of the Save Darfur Coalition , during an interview on the Voices on Genocide Prevention Podcast. April 8 Watch the HBO special, The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo. "[Y]ou don't necessarily have to solve a problem. I don't have to solve the problem.

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Interview with Zainab Salbi, Founder of Women for Women International

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The women that we are servicing in Congo, where, if they are lucky, they get $0.20 The women that we are servicing in Congo, where, if they are lucky, they get $0.20 We work in countries like Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, among others. Our country director in Rwanda was a refugee all her life.

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13 Women Changing the World

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Amira Diamond and Melinda Kramer Co-Directors, Women's Earth Alliance. Cristi Hegranes Executive Director and Founder, Global Press Institute. Halle Butvin Founder and Director, One Mango Tree. I've included links to each audio interview, as well to transcripts (when they're available).

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Support Women Survivors of War with $27/month

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If not director of a school, I would like to be someone of importance, someone of value again.'"--Honorata (pictured left) about her experience with Women for Women International. Survivors can also participate in rights awareness and leadership education training, job skills training, and business development support.

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Solutionary Women: Heddy Nam

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It is a jack-of-all trades position: I do everything from helping to maintain our Intranet, manage our internal news bulletin, work with our Board of Directors, conduct research that helps shape the strategic direction of our organization, and more. I traveled to Rwanda in December 2005-January 2006 and did field work with Never Again-Rwanda.

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