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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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He ran into Congo. He was there for about a month, and then war in Congo was breaking out. He did his degree in NGO Management, and will be graduating this coming June. His idea is that he wants to recreate, in reverse, the walk that he made from Sudan all the way through Congo and into Zambia. It had been bombed.

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Solutionary Women: Heddy Nam

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That’s when they decided that youth, who are idealistic, energetic and open-minded, would be the engine to peacebuilding to ensure that genocide does not go unchallenged. Since then, the network has grown to include hundreds of members residing in the UK, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, China, and Canada.

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