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Connecting Across Religious Divides: Program Update from Sri Lanka

Karuna Center for Peacebuilding Yobo Member
January 25th, 2012

I recently returned from two weeks in the Sri Lankan city of Trincomalee, where we had earlier launched our year-long reconciliation program with a series of workshops within Buddhist, Christian, Muslim and Hindu religious communities.

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Haitian Students Celebrate New Opportunities

AFSC Yobo Member
December 26th, 2011

After six months of hard work in an accelerated technical training program, youth supported by AFSC in Martissant, a Port-au-Prince community, celebrated their achievement in a graduation ceremony held in Petionville.

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Human Rights Day 2011

DP News
December 12th, 2011

It has been a year like no other for human rights. Human rights activism has never been more topical or more vital. And through the transforming power of social media, ordinary people have become human rights activists.

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Connecting Us to Africa’s Untold Stories, One T-Shirt at a Time

YOBO Yobo Staff
November 22nd, 2011

Whether it is through a children’s book or the multi-billion dollar global used-clothing trade, Ross Lohr believes the key to successful economic development lies in creating connections.

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Reading, Writing, Empathy: The Rise of ‘Social Emotional Learning’

Dowser
November 1st, 2011

At a time of contentious debate over how to reform schools to make teachers more effective and students more successful, “social emotional learning” may be a key part of the solution.

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Brief Singular Life Inspires Creative Activists

Voice of America
December 27th, 2011

Artist, activist and photojournalist Dan Eldon lived a short, yet full, life expressing himself through photos, drawings and journals.

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New York City Public Schools Compete to Be the Greenest

Nation of Change
December 16th, 2011

Last Friday, Solar One and city officials announced the launch of a public school-wide competition that will award a total of $30,000 to schools that can achieve the most energy savings by next April.

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Connecting Us to Africa’s Untold Stories, One T-Shirt at a Time…cont.

YOBO Yobo Staff
November 23rd, 2011

Unlike NTC, Project Repat is an idea that nearly sells itself. While they were working in Africa, Lohr and Hewens noticed that the huge used clothing markets were full of awesome vintage t-shirts their friends back home would love.

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Afghan Book Making Class

Skateistan
November 2nd, 2011

We have set up a Book Making class for our students at Skateistan. In this class we are also doing an exchange with students in Florida. Check out the pictures.

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Sustainability Leading Professionals Gather at Oxford University

CSRwire Yobo Member
October 28th, 2011

‘These Young Minds’ in collaboration with the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford, organized an event ‘Bridging the gap between Sustainability and the Board’ on the 20th October 2011 at University of Oxford.

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