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Geoff Livingston Guest Post: Follow @childfund and Help Feed Children

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These efforts will directly benefit children in Gambia, Zambia, Kenya and Ethiopia. Each country has different needs so the gifts vary: Chickens for a school in the Gambia. ChildFund wants to show folks how their efforts and these items benefit children and their communities. A goat for a family farm in Zambia.

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African edtech startup uLesson raises $15M, backed by Nielsen Ventures and Tencent

TechCrunch

As many edtech companies benefited from the disruption of the pandemic, attracting wads of cash from investors globally, it did feel like African startups were left out. Well, not anymore: Two-year-old startup uLesson announced today that it closed a $15 million Series B round. The investment, which comes 11 months after uLesson raised a $7.5

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How social media is supporting small charities

AFP Blog

How social media is supporting small charities : he true value of the impact social media has on fundraising projects was demonstrated to me during a recent visit to The Gambia, where I worked with the Glove Project, an organisation which works to improve local villages through a mixture of aid and enterprise.

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How foreign workers helped spur Spain’s rapid economic growth

Fast Company Tech

Our future prosperity Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Snchez has defended legal migration, drawing attention to its economic benefits. Snchez toured Mauritania, Senegal, and Gambia last year to promote a temporary work scheme whereby African workers could get legal and safe passage to Spain. Countless die in the attempt.

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Platforms successfully stopped a lame COVID conspiracy video from going viral

The Verge

Facebook is rejecting a request from The Gambia to help it investigate the genocide in Myanmar, saying the request was “extraordinarily broad” as well as “unduly intrusive or burdensome.” Get those benefits while you can, hype houses! Makena Kelly / The Verge ). Amanda Perelli / Business Insider ).

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Facebook’s big QAnon crackdown might have come too late

The Verge

The Gambia doesn’t have either kind of agreement with the US, and the SCA doesn’t include exceptions for international justice efforts. Its stock is up over 50 percent from its pre-pandemic high, underscoring just how much investors think it has benefited from the disruption.

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