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Akilah Institute for Women: Social Media Workshop

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After the ACE leadership training, I had the opportunity to spend a day in Kigali. I volunteered to do a Social Media and Professional Networking workshop for second year students at the Akilah Institute for Women. I got an opportunity to do a workshop with second year students during their IT class. Everyone was using Facebook.

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Three Reasons Kids Need Digital Literacy and Citizenship Education

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Note from Beth: By the time you read this post, I’ll be in the air enroute to Rwanda for a training project. As a parent of wired kids, I think teaching digital literacy is very important for parents to do. Three tips for teaching digital literacy and citizenship: Start with a clear vision. Photo by WhiteAfrican.

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7 Things I learned From #Beth53 Fundraiser and PoST Class

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I do this with every social media activity as well as whenever I teach. I asked the students what else does that? This post harvests what I learned and what I still don't know about the birthday campaign strategy and measurement as well as guest teaching a graduate school class. Setting the Right Dollar Goal. Engagement.

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I Hope My Kids Organize Their Own Online Fundraiser When They Are Teenagers

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Spencer Brodsky is 17 and he is spending his time online to raise money to bring Green Stoves to Rwanda , something he's been doing for the past 2 years. . Teach Your Kids About Charities: YouthGive. about a class project where students made cards for some elderly residents of a group home. Spencer Brodsky.

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Women Who Tech Around the World

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” Using a webinar and conference call platform, we were able to bring in participants from San Francisco, Rwanda, Kenya, Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt. I organized and moderated a panel called “ Women Who Tech Globally.” Unfortunately, our presenter from Lebanon had connectivity issues and was unable to present.

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UNIFEM, Women-Owned Businesses & Rwanda Knits

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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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Solutionary Women: Heddy Nam

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It was founded in 2001 by a group of college students from all over the world who wanted to ensure that “Never Again” became a reality rather than a rhetorical sound bite. Later, they learned that it happened again and again – in the cases of Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda - and it was still happening but nobody was doing anything about it.

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