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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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FORGE serves 60,000 refugees in three different refugee camps in Southern Africa, and is an official operating partner of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR ). He ran into Congo. He was there for about a month, and then war in Congo was breaking out. We would bring students. It had been bombed. How has that changed?

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Announcing… 31 New Favorite Nonprofits for 2013!

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National Marine Life Center :: @ MarineLifeCtr. The National Marine Life Center forcus on rehabilitating stranded sea turtles, seals, dolphins, porpoises & whales while advancing scientific knowledge and education in marine wildlife health & conservation. National MS Society :: @ MSSociety. MomsRising :: @ MomsRising.

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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

The amazing thing about serving 100,000 students right now is that our commitment to the U.S. Department of Education was to serve 100,000 students by the end of our five-year contract in late 2012. Human Rights Program – Changing the Field of Human Rights Making the truth matter is the core theme of our human rights work.

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Solutionary Women: Heddy Nam

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It was founded in 2001 by a group of college students from all over the world who wanted to ensure that “Never Again” became a reality rather than a rhetorical sound bite. 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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