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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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Print pictures. Sudan caused a 0.12% increase in the country’s GDP growth rate, partly. opportunities, improve social empowerment, reduce the need to undertake. So w hat else can you do with a mobile? Short Message Service (SMS). Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS). MP3 player. Get directions. Scan in a business card.

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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. The projects can range from preschools, to libraries and computer training centers, to women empowerment programs. It had been bombed. Mainly it was luck.