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Rwanda and Twitter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’m headed to Rwanda to participate in a training for the ACE project, a network of African Women’s Leadership organizations in the Sub-Saharan region. The first of the Rwandan Twitter “peeps” that I discovered was the President of Rwanda – Paul Kagame who is very active on Twitter.

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Generation Rwanda: Two Stories

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The site was established in 2004 on the 10th Anniversary of the genocide in partnership with the Rwanda Government, Kigali City Council, and Aegis Trust, a charity in the UK dedicated to the prediction, prevention, and ultimately elimination of genocide. You can find her story on the Generation Rwanda site).

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Social Media, Networking, and African Women’s Leadership Training in Rwanda

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For the past ten days, I’ve been in Rwanda, Africa. Most of the training days took place in rural Rwanda on Lake Muhazi – which was a beautiful place. We visited the Genocide Memorial (I’ve written a post about this for tomorrow) and visited with Women Leaders in the Rwanda Parliament.

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Announcing Our Second Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Supporting Small-Scale Farmers Globally

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He has been on field missions to co-create solutions with governments and implementing partners in Zambia, Mozambique, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Nigeria, and Bangladesh. He has an MBA in Supply Chain and Finance from Michigan State University and a Bachelor’s degree in Agribusiness from the National University of Rwanda.

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UNIFEM, Women-Owned Businesses & Rwanda Knits

Have Fun - Do Good

Eight BPeace members traveled to Rwanda in May 2006 and used the Bpeace Rwanda blog to document their trip. One of the team's members, Cari Clement of the Fiber and Craft Entrepreneurial Development Center , also kept her own travel blog, Rwanda Knits, during the trip.

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Jen Lemen Raises Over $3,000 in 24 Hours for Rwanda Project

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" So, when she emailed me about her plans to raise money to visit Rwanda for this project , I made a contribution and circulated her request. Jen Lemen will visit Grace (12) and Lillian (9), the daughters of Odette Umurerwa, a genocide survivor from Rwanda currently living in the United States. Here's a summary of her plan.

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Steve Bridger Interviews Camera Rwanda about NGOS and Flickr

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Pearl Children Care Center I discovered Camera Rwanda's beautiful photo stream when I wrote about it on blogher last January. Steve Bridger from NFP 2.0 just posted an interview with her entitled " Camera Rwands: Storytelling using Flickr."

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