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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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. ** Kjerstin Erickson: FORGE is an international nonprofit organization that works with refugee communities in Africa. We bring communities together to identify their top problems, needs, and priorities, and solve them internally. He ran into Congo. He was there for about a month, and then war in Congo was breaking out.

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Announcing… 31 New Favorite Nonprofits for 2013!

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SOS Children’s Villages International :: @ SOS_Children. Girls Education International :: @ GirlsED. Girls Education International strives to expand and support educational opportunities for women and girls in remote regions of the developing world. National Marine Life Center :: @ MarineLifeCtr.

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How Nelson Mandela’s Legacy to Advance Access to Education Lives On

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After advising the students of trying as much as possible to remain in school, he explained his reasoning: “Because education is the most powerful weapon which we can use in order to prepare our youth for their role as leaders of tomorrow.”. I was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo and at the age of five my father passed away suddenly.

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Benetech: President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Last summer I talked about our great summer interns and fellows and early this year, I sent a copy of our 20th Anniversary Report that talked about our entire history. The amazing thing about serving 100,000 students right now is that our commitment to the U.S.