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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. They will share the recipients’ stories and photos with the social web. A goat for a family farm in Zambia. Mango trees in Kenya.

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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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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 foreign workers helped spur Spain’s rapid economic growth

Fast Company Tech

Spains ministry for social security and migration says 45% of all jobs created since 2022 have been filled by around half a million new foreign-born workers. It credits the newcomers with sustaining the aging countrys social security systema challenge common in other European nations. That also beat the U.S.

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Platforms successfully stopped a lame COVID conspiracy video from going viral

The Verge

Adi Robertson picks up the story at The Verge : Social media sites are trying to stop the spread of Plandemic: Indoctornation , a follow-up to the Plandemic conspiracy video about the novel coronavirus. There’s still some possibility that Indoctornation will find new life on the social platforms. Makena Kelly / The Verge ).

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Facebook’s big QAnon crackdown might have come too late

The Verge

The “Tide Pods challenge” surged on social networks in 2018, and ultimately more than 10,000 children were reported to have been exposed to whatever extremely inedible substance is actually inside Tide Pods. The Gambia doesn’t have either kind of agreement with the US, and the SCA doesn’t include exceptions for international justice efforts.

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