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Just some quick examples: - Heidi Kuhn of Roots of Peace: Heidi has actually driven a great deal of real landmine removal, and she is very strong on the human and public side of the issue (somewhere where we are not strong). and more.
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[Editor's note: The following is an article from the March 2012 issue of NTEN:Change. Read the rest of the issue when you subscribe to the journal for free! ] In the early years, we were working in China, Nepal, Cambodia, and Ethiopia, where we now purify water for over 200,000 kids daily.
So often, government control, or just lack of access to information and media, prevents people from really being able to be educated and informed about serious issues that are going on around them. Many of our trainees and journalists in Nepal do have children. BB: So right now you work in Nepal and in Mexico? CH: Yes, we do.
The Open Aid Partnership , held Open Nepal Week’s Data Literacy Bootcamp, which gathered over 80 Nepali journalists, developers, coders, and civil society representatives to find, extract, and analyze and visualize public data.
Before this, there were no motivations for fundraisers in Nepal,” Dhakal explains. “It Dhakal’s efforts helped grow fundraising in Nepal into a sustainable system and boost the culture of giving not only for individual fundraisers and for individual organizations, but also for the country as well. Stay ahead of the competition.
I did microfinance consulting in Nepal. Went to Ethiopia with Charity:Water to understand water issues and what NGOs are doing. What brings you joy? What are you best at? What does the world need? Kicked off an 8-year journey. "I I erred way too much on the side of question #3. I volunteered at a child health care org in India.
Your way may be starting an organic catering company, or painting about issues that are important to you, or getting out on the streets and protesting, or maybe working with policy; there are all kinds of different work. As I wrote in Loyal to the Sky , I spent about five months in India and Nepal right after 9/11.
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I felt an emptiness inside, as a woman, that I wasn't hearing from the teachers that I wanted to about world issues. You can just go on there and you can be talking immediately to women in Bolivia, and in Nepal, and drawing strength, courage, and support from them, and vice versa. I'm a complete magazine and media addict.
JEANETTE: Perhaps, especially if they understand the issues and if you explain your call to action and your campaign priorities. When President Obama was visiting Nepal, the campaign wanted to have the President to mention a group of people who was being persecuted at the time that the local government wouldn’t let anyone talk about.
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