The Multiplier Effect: Driving Haiti’s recovery by spending aid dollars locally
Building Markets, an NGO, has connected Haitian businesses with foreign NGOs who can funnel humanitarian aid through the local suppliers
From Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle: Benetech uses data and technology to create and implement solutions that empower people to improve their lives. The organization expands access to information for marginalized communities in education and literacy, human rights, and poverty alleviation.
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Building Markets, an NGO, has connected Haitian businesses with foreign NGOs who can funnel humanitarian aid through the local suppliers
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The Barefoot College Tilonia is a community-based grassroots organization that pairs the skills and intelligence of rural people and ‘experts’
The documentary Descendant follows a community in Mobile, Alabama, the last known location where enslaved people were brought to the