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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

The program helps Vietnamese nonprofits to build staff capacity, apply for grants, and recruit skilled volunteers. Although Vietnam is regarded as a developing country, it has a literacy rate of 94 percent. It also matches philanthropists with volunteer opportunities and funding recommendations.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

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It was written in very scribbled Nepali, her literacy skills were incredibly rudimentary, but what she ended up writing was a piece of journalism. It is different in every place and oftentimes very laborious, but we are working on a potential program with The Open Society Institute in Myanmar. I said, "You write it.