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Youth Employment Initiative Launched in South Africa

CSR Wire Yobo Member
May 4th, 2012

To address the challenges young people face in South Africa when entering the labor force or starting their own business, the International Youth Foundation (IYF) and the Caterpillar Foundation have launched EquipYouth, a program that will provide 720 local youth with a package of services that includes technical job and life skills training as well as post-training support.

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Birthing Justice: Without Firing an Arm, We Created a Revolution

Other Worlds
April 10th, 2012

“We take the land from one hand and put it in the hands of a thousand…landowners would only use this land for cattle, and now we produce beans, milk, food, for the entire population.” – Ilda Martines de Souza

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Birthing Justice: Women In Peace-Building: Peace Amidst War for Resource Control

Other Worlds Yobo Member
April 3rd, 2012

Welcome to Birthing Justice: Women Creating Economic and Social Alternatives. The series features twelve alternative social and economic models which expand the possibilities for justice, equity, and strong community.

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Be Passionate – But First, Educate Yourself

Yobo Yobo Staff
March 8th, 2012

Awareness of issues like Kony 2012 is the first step in creating social action towards peaceful solutions. The next step involves doing critical research on both the issue at hand and the organization from which you got the information.

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Carlsbad: Pair Plans To Paddle From San Francisco To Coronado

NC Times
February 16th, 2012

Walking Eagle and Warner, both of Carlsbad, are gearing up to paddleboard nearly 500 miles from the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco to the San Diego-Coronado Bridge in an effort to raise awareness for Charity: Water, a global nonprofit that raises money to install wells in underdeveloped parts of the world.

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Birthing Justice: The Link to Humanity – Gift Economies

Other Worlds Yobo Member
May 1st, 2012

All of Coumba Toure’s work is aimed at keeping African values alive. As part of this, she is deeply involved in a women-led movement to keep the gift economy thriving. West African gifting is based on the interrelated values that all humanity is linked and that one’s well-being is only as strong as that of one’s neighbor. Pro?t and exchange are trumped by a commitment to care for community.

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Good Profile – Zack Matere (Leo Pamoja)

Good Generation
April 5th, 2012

Good Profiles feature members of our Good Generation who are either out there in the field doing interesting work or still in the trenches of schools and institutions waiting to make their mark on the world.

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Peace Corps Volunteer Tackles a Sensitive Women’s Health Problem in Uganda

Michigan Tech
March 14th, 2012

Michigan Tech student Stacey Frankenstein-Markon has been able to help hundreds of girls practice better hygiene while they learn about menstruation, their bodies and women’s health. And not incidentally, stay in school.

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Game-Changing Retreat in South Africa

Echoing Green Yobo Member
March 1st, 2012

The recent Echoing Green Fellowship regional retreat in South Africa was game-changing. We went in with the intention of building community, showcasing innovation and developing infrastructure to support social entrepreneurs in Africa. What actually happened was so much more.

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Empowering for the Future

AFSC Yobo Member
January 19th, 2012

Our future is only as strong as the young people we have invested in as a community. Miafere “Mia” Jones is a young woman doing just that in Baltimore City, not just investing in our youth, but also offering herself as a resource to those in need of guidance.

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