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The Power of Sport in Changing the World

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In 2005, a visit to Right to Play in Sierra Leone with skateboarding icon Tony Hawk changed my life. It wasn’t long after their civil war, and the program was working with child combatants, using sports to teach new skills. The post The Power of Sport in Changing the World appeared first on Salesforce.org.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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of total philanthropic resources each year that actually directly go to benefit women and girls, and that includes both domestic and international grant making. I remember a very wonderful woman from Sierra Leone, Sarandabba, saying to me, "You know in a war, women are raped, but Mother Earth is also raped.

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