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President's Update: Summer 2008

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Our work in Liberia, funded by the State Department in support of the Truth Commission (TRC) continues. Benetech's Human Rights Program Manager, Kristen Cibelli, has just relocated to Liberia for at least six months. Route 66 Literacy was put on the back burner last year because it ran out of funding.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

They wanted to create a literacy program for themselves because now there was a school where their children could go to school, but they felt embarrassed that they couldn't support their children because they themselves were illiterate. All of those forms of violence combined with violence outside the homes.

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