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Shouldn’t the Word Phone Be Removed from Mobile? The Use of the Mobile by Nonprofits for Development

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This was originally posted on the GuideStar International blog. The International Telecommunications Union (ITU). Print pictures. opportunities, improve social empowerment, reduce the need to undertake. Can you remember when a huge mobile. phone was a brand new and exciting phenomenon and something that only a.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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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. We bring communities together to identify their top problems, needs, and priorities, and solve them internally. It had been bombed. Mainly it was luck.

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Off the Mat, Into the World: An Interview with Seane Corn

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It could be the environment, it could be educational issues, political issues, international, national. Now that we're back, we're onto the next project which is the Uganda Seva Challenge where we will be building a birthing center. Just recently I saw the greatest picture of myself, which unfortunately is an old picture.

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

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However, I thought I’d back up the theory with a brief picture of what this kind of travel looks like in practice. Took pictures of the lunar eclipse next to the Empire State Building(!) Met with a major international human rights defender group about our Martus technology and digital security more generally. Visiting the Hon.

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