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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

Since 1986, the country has been transitioning from a central-planned economy to a free-market system and trying to move from its dependency on agriculture to industry. Our New NGO Partners in Indonesia. It uses a crowd-funding matching system like the famous Kiva.org system. It is also a major exporter of rice.

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Big Vision Podcast: Interview with llyse Hogue Rainforest Action Network

Have Fun - Do Good

After college, after some wanderings and living out in nature doing a lot of backpacking I decided I didn't want to, actually, well, actually let me start, I was a science major in college because I knew that I wanted to study eco-systems and help to preserve them that way. Went through the democractic system, went door-to-door.

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