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New data for strategic disaster philanthropy 

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Cyclone Idai struck Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, causing widespread flood destruction. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) allocated $1 billion in recovery efforts in 2019 for disasters that took place in 2017; and the U.S. Wildfires plagued the Amazon, California and Australia. billion for U.S. disasters; the U.S.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

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In some of the places where we work, women are very often not in professional roles whatsoever, much less the media. 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. We are pushing an envelope there.

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

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A high school English teacher in Zimbabwe, whose name is Betty Makoni , began hearing stories from her students after school, that they had been raped. That was happening as a result of a pernicious rumor, which is floated, essentially, by the traditional healers there, and in other places. In this case, the girls were using poetry.

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Martin Luther King Day - Let Freedom Ring

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Amazingly powerful insights on America and our role building this nation. -- Martin Luther King Day, 2010 Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. Martin Luther King, Jr. I remember when I discovered my own racism.