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Hackathons for Good: Techies, Thinkers, and Activists Unite

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But more than anything, hackathons are fun events to network and meet allies interested in supporting your cause. Libraries have also been getting in on the hacking fun. Serbia) in partnership with TechSoup Global and Zasto ne (Bosnia and Herzegovina). Hackathons for Social Good. Library Hackathons. The ReStart Challenges.

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Interview with Zainab Salbi, Founder of Women for Women International

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We work in countries like Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, among others. She speaks three languages fluently, Swahili, English, and French, among many other local languages. Our country director in Bosnia was a survivor of the four-year siege of Sarajevo. That's the story of Women for Women.

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Solutionary Women: Heddy Nam

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Later, they learned that it happened again and again – in the cases of Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda - and it was still happening but nobody was doing anything about it. They remembered learning in school about the Holocaust in World War II and the international commitment that genocide would never happen again.

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