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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In fact, his reading skills are above average and he is on track to be an honor roll student. We competed against other participating organizations, racing against the clock to raise funds and secure matching funding from the Skoll Foundation. His disability, however, does not stop him from flying through his homework assignments.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

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When women have access to specific skills, training, and education, all of a sudden their survival and livelihood statistics shoot way up, not only their own, but entire communities. It was written in very scribbled Nepali, her literacy skills were incredibly rudimentary, but what she ended up writing was a piece of journalism.