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Win a Trip to Report for the NYT with Nicholas Kristof

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It's this belief that prompted Kristof to create his Win-a-Trip contest for graduate and undergraduate students at American universities. Past winners traveled to Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Rwanda, and Congo. The student reporter will blog and vlog for nytimes.com. on his blog, On the Ground.

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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. 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. We would bring students. He was coming back to his village, and he found that his village was in flames.

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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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Announcing… 31 New Favorite Nonprofits for 2013!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Gorilla Doctors provides life-saving medical care to mountain and Grauer’s gorillas in Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Alliance for Climate Education’s mission is to educate high school students on the science behind climate change and inspire them to take action to curb global warming.

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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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