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A Voice for the Voiceless: An Innovative Facebook Advocacy Campaign

Care2

There are more than 6 million ”untouchables”, Dalits, living in Nepal today. We turned to Facebook, the voice of a nearly a billion people, and one of the most important, personal communication channels of our time. Because they are deemed polluting, people even avoid their shadow.

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Can love change the world? I hope so!

Amy Sample Ward

She originally founded the Voice of Women Organization (VWO) to educate girls in Kabul in secret schools under the Taliban, and has since expanded to support and assist underprivileged women and children throughout Afghanistan.

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The Impact of Your Donation: Udaya Sharma, 14NTC Scholarship Recipient, Shares

NTEN

As we try to raise support for 2015, we wanted to share the impact of your donation from last year, from the voices of our scholarship recipients. Today, we want to introduce you to Udaya Sharma , CEO of RDIC. What is your organization''s mission?

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

Have Fun - Do Good

Many of our trainees and journalists in Nepal do have children. We really try and get women from all walks of life to be able to participate in our program, the goal being to provide as many unique voices and opportunities as possible. BB: So right now you work in Nepal and in Mexico? CH: Yes, we do.

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MCON13 Live Blog: Connecting with Millennials (Mike Del Ponte, Soma)

NTEN

I heard a voice in my head: You''re the man of the house, and you have to take care of your mom and sister." I wish that little voice had told me about money! I did microfinance consulting in Nepal. That''s never good. Mike''s father had passed away. Everyone else starting crying. What brings you joy? What are you best at?

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Ushahidi Develops Innovative Tools for Nonprofits and Others Working to Benefit the Public

Tech Soup

These posts have benefited an estimated 20 million people in stricken areas like Haiti in 2010 and Nepal in 2015. Many organizations including the United Nations have used Ushahidi's crowdsourcing tools to raise their voice. Since then, there have been more than 6.5 million posts or testimonies on Ushahidi.

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The Journey of the Spiritual Activist: An Interview with Marisa Handler

Have Fun - Do Good

As I wrote in Loyal to the Sky , I spent about five months in India and Nepal right after 9/11. I feel like I've done a lot of different activism, and a lot of journalism, and the motivating force for all of that was to shine a spotlight on all the places of suffering, and to try to emphasize voices that often went unheard.