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FEBRUARY 3, 2008

Africa the next Chapter??? The project will also include training these rural women to create podcasts, videos, and blog posts. The Foko project is participating in the United Nation Billion Tree Campaign and will plant 1,000 trees a day over a ten-day campaign. You can support the effort here ) Cross posted at BlogHer.

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OCTOBER 31, 2006

Marsha Wallace, the founder of Dining for Women , contacted me after reading some of the posts I had written about Dining for Women here and on BlogHer , and invited my husband and I to be Dining for Women's guest at the event. At the time, Maathai was a member of the National Council of Women of Kenya (NCWK).

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JUNE 19, 2009

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 ). The projects can range from preschools, to libraries and computer training centers, to women empowerment programs. What brought you here? Mainly it was luck.

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APRIL 24, 2007

So yes, awareness around Fair Trade is growing, but it's growing slowly basically because the resources are still insufficient to tackle the job in a major national way. We're bombarded by messages in this country and so for a small, non-profit organization like ours. our budget this year is $10 million.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Last week, after the election, BlogHer co-founder Lisa Stone, asked What Will You Do To Change America? On October 21, 2008, I interviewed Marianne Manilov, the National Team Leader at The Engage Network, about their work. Below is an edited transcript of an interview, which you can also listen to on the Big Vision Podcast.

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JUNE 30, 2007

I worked in East Africa with an organization called Care Kenya, working with women around sustainable agriculture issues. We introduced rooibos and honeybush from South Africa, which was never heard of in America. What I do is, I write for several blogs, as she mentioned. And we also innovated.

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