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From a Millennial: Nobody Wants to Hear Your Stories. We Want to See Them.

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National Library of Medicine put the average 2013 attention span at 8 seconds. Instagram sponsored posts. But there was also something extremely odd about these “Sponsored” posts that Instagram. Having spent several months in Southern Sudan, I know the struggles that people have to find clean drinking water.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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FORGE serves 60,000 refugees in three different refugee camps in Southern Africa, and is an official operating partner of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR ). One of those individuals is Paul Ohisa, and he's a refugee from Sudan. His dream was to go back to Sudan, and to contribute and help rebuild. It had been bombed.

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What Can I Do About Genocide? An Interview with Janessa Goldbeck

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Some of the programs that we have currently running are the Sudan Divestment Task Force , which is leading up the campaign to divest state pensions from companies doing business in Sudan on a recently passed Federal legislation to ban future state contracts. It was being sponsored by the Genocide Intervention Network.

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