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FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Empowerment for our participants comes from connecting to an inner wisdom that is often kept hidden from public view, but is a place of extraordinary innate strength and well being. Each card is a piece of art in my mind. Connecting personal wisdom to effect positive change is our goal. We have come a long way!

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Costa Rica Interview Afghanistan Artist 60

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JUNE 19, 2009

Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. The projects can range from preschools, to libraries and computer training centers, to women empowerment programs. He ran into Congo. It had been bombed.

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Interview Sudan Africa Congo 40

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NOVEMBER 17, 2010

And mind you, they weren't all women who wanted to be journalists. If your angle is using this training as an outlet for local empowerment and development, then you very much want to bring in mentorship. We brought professional empowerment mentors and coaches, and also professional editors. So, we started this program.

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Voice Global Saudi Arabia Journal 69

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APRIL 2, 2008

You can see the ripples kind of spreading out, but you don't know whether one ripple caused a tadpole to swim a different direction, you don't know whether a bird flew away because the ripples made it change its mind, you don't know whether a flower that might not have grown in that place now is growing in that place.

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