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Generation Rwanda: Two Stories

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It includes personal testimonies, photographs, and artifacts. Another exhibit looks at past massacres in Armenia, Bosnia, Cambodia, The Holocaust, and other places of the world where genocide has taken place. The profits from the business help both Germaine and these other families.Germaine uses her Windows Phone as her virtual store.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

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Team Confufish Royale from Australia developed an app called Foodbank Local that allows businesses to easily donate excess food. Our TechSoup Global partners there are also working hard on disaster relief in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia through the Community Boost r program and also a project called Mapa Poplava.

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

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We are testing it out at hackathons this month in San Francisco and also in Sarajevo in Bosnia. These services use a Netflix business model that allow subscribers to read as many books as you want for a monthly fee. Hacker Helper is currently in beta. After that we hope lots of people will contribute content to it. All Things D.

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Beijing 2008 Olympics Potential Catalyst for Human Rights

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Lisa of ENOUGH writes in, Tell Companies Sponosoring the Chinese Olympics that Darfur is Not 'Business is Usual' , " we believe that the more voices that are raised, the more hope there is for peace in Darfur. The Olympics belong to all of us, and in the face of genocide, anyone in a position of influence must try to act."

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Interview with Zainab Salbi, Founder of Women for Women International

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She also goes through a vocational skills and business skills training track, where it ends up giving her tangible skills, so she can get a job. We work in countries like Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, among others. She started a business with her women's circle that does batik fabric. Every single one.

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What is Your Favorite Social Action of 2008?

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Women for Women International supports women survivors of war in conflict and post-conflict areas (Afghanistan, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Sudan). Each woman is paired with a sponsor whose donation helps to cover some of their basic necessities (food, water, medicine).

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Support Women Survivors of War with $27/month

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In small groups, the women learned basic business and marketing skills. Survivors can also participate in rights awareness and leadership education training, job skills training, and business development support. They enrolled in special job skills classes designed to meet the market needs of their community.

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