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Posted on March 21, 2011
When I try to get people interested in the education cause in Rwanda, they often tell me that they’re up to their eyeballs in work on public or charter schools in their own neighborhoods – Upper West Side, Noe Valley, wherever. Some people, though, have a broad definition of “neighborhood.”
A couple of years back, two women from Seattle approached me about the possibility of establishing a girls’ school here in Rwanda. I’ve grown accustomed to receiving countless entrepreneurial inquiries from well-meaning people and seeing little come of them, so I must admit that my first reaction was skepticism.
Girls Read More “Girls In The Spotlight: A Lesson From Rwanda”
Posted on February 18, 2011
If you walked into the dimly lit, wood-paneled room and listened to the fast-paced talk by Cynthia Koenig, you might be forgiven for thinking she just sounded like another one of those young, profit-oriented entrepreneurs looking for money from venture capitalists or other kinds of investors.
Koenig is, actually, one of those money-seeking young business types, except that the primary goal of her proposal is to make life a lot easier and safer for millions of poor women around the world.
Hence the Wello, a kind of goofy looking water-carrying wheel-barrel (no, that’s not a typo) that she and Read More “Young Biz Entrepreneurs Compete For Social Good”
Posted on February 8, 2011
There are times when the term “disabled” simply doesn’t apply. That’s definitely true for the cricket team sponsored by Clear Path International in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar Province. Although team members all possess some type of physical disability, their winning record against completely able-bodied opponents calls into question whether labeling them as the disabled cricket team is indeed appropriate.
The team was created by CPI’s partner, Afghan Disabled Vulnerable Society (ADVS) to provide sports activities for youth with physical challenges, and to change public perceptions about the role of disabled persons in the community. Most of the players live in Jalalabad City, Read More “Afghan Disabled Cricket Team Proves Ability”