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New data for strategic disaster philanthropy 

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Cyclone Idai struck Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, causing widespread flood destruction. Non-DAC government donors and multilateral organizations contributed an additional $2.8 Hurricane Dorian caused catastrophic damage in the Bahamas and parts of the eastern United States. Wildfires plagued the Amazon, California and Australia.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

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So often, government control, or just lack of access to information and media, prevents people from really being able to be educated and informed about serious issues that are going on around them. In some of the places where we work, women are very often not in professional roles whatsoever, much less the media.

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

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A high school English teacher in Zimbabwe, whose name is Betty Makoni , began hearing stories from her students after school, that they had been raped. The children are ages 6-16, and they're making huge strides by leading a national movement against child rape in Zimbabwe. In this case, the girls were using poetry.

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Martin Luther King Day - Let Freedom Ring

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Amazingly powerful insights on America and our role building this nation. -- Martin Luther King Day, 2010 Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. Martin Luther King, Jr. I remember when I discovered my own racism.