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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

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And mind you, they weren't all women who wanted to be journalists. We so often are willing to give and give and give, and our own bodies or our own state of mind is the last thing. They're coming from Nepal, the Philippines, and Bolivia. So, we started this program. Last year we piloted it, in 2009. It's just accessible.

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

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PG: I think that the one that comes to mind first is a wonderful picture of women in Kenya who are growing corn. It is very different to interview sex workers who have been trafficked in Phnom Penh, than to interview women who are doing knitting in Bolivia. The women are using those forms that are the most effective in their cultures.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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I think my favorite example of that is a women's group from the highlands of Bolivia who wrote to us maybe seven or eight years ago. They were a group of illiterate women who dictated their requests to a priest in the village, who then hand wrote the request.

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