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Videos
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Causecast featured organization Creative Visions celebrates those who use creativity to create positive social change. Creative Visions leads Film Festival: Rwanda, a traveling exhibition of local films which uses visual storytelling to build community in a land still healing from genocide.
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A description of the work of FACE AIDS, a national organization devoted to inspiring and mobilizing students to fight AIDS in Africa. FACE AIDS, located in Palo Alto and founded in 2005, has raised over 1.4 million dollars for Partners In Health, the renowned global health organization led by Dr. Paul Farmer and Dr. Jim Kim.
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Causecast featured organization HOPE focuses on involving artists and their contributions in campaigns, programs and events to support existing social projects that promote education and peace around the world. In this video, HOPE artists work with genocide victims and orphans in Rwanda. By creating a sustainable business, money is raised by making screen print T-shirts for music artists such as Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, and Dave Matthews.
Articles
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Scarlett Johansson Visits AIDS Clinics in Rwanda
Actress Scarlett Johansson recently made a journey to the African country of Rwanda, where she visited numerous AIDS clinics. She visited on behalf of the (R... -
Fighting HIV in Rwanda with (RED)
Since the beginning of the (RED) campaign, the Global Fund has wired more than $22 million of (RED) money to Rwanda.
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Rwanda troops withdraw from Congo
Thousands of Rwandan troops have started to leave Democratic Republic of Congo five weeks after they crossed the border to attack Hutu rebels.
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In 1994, 800,000 were brutally murdered in the village of Tutsis in Rwanda. Years later Lily Yeh, an American artist came into the village and simply asked t...
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Gorilla States In Poaching Pledge
Countries that are home to gorillas have pledged to monitor how laws against harming the animals are being implemented on the ground.
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The mountain gorillas of Virunga National Park have been mostly unharmed by the civil war. But they are caught in a struggle between the government and rebels..
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Malaria Vaccine May Be Available In 2012
A vaccine against the parasitic disease malaria cut illnesses by more than half in field trials and could be safely given with other childhood inoculations...
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Rwandan Aide 'Backs Congo Rebels'
An advisor to Rwandan President Paul Kagame plays a role in financing Congolese Tutsi rebels led by Laurent Nkunda, a UN report says.
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Nkunda and I: My Day With The Charismatic Congolese Warlord
Less than a year ago, at 25 years old, I went deep into the war-zone on a motorcycle to meet Nkunda. This is my story from that day.
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Hutu Rebels 'Retake Congo Bases'
Hutu militias have re-occupied areas in the Democratic Republic of Congo despite the recent offensive against them, UN officials say.
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Rwanda Priest Jailed For Genocide
A former Rwandan priest has been given a 25-year jail sentence for committing genocide, sexual assault and kidnapping during the 1994 killings in Rwanda.
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HOPE Projects: Identified Educational Groups
"Hope is like Peace. It is a gift only we can give one another." -Elie Wiesel
People
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Blog posts
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Here is the link for the story at Reuters http://af.reuters.com/article/drcNews/idAFLN34164620090123 Please read my friend Seans encounter with Nkunda in the DRC before he started his organi...
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The developing world is so far down on the economic food chain that, as I've said before, they just can't care about anything other than survival. Because of this, their contributions to global car...
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Rock The Wells Jan 29th House of Blues
Veritas Artist Collective members SLEEPERSTAR will be headlining a benefit concert on Jan 29th at House of Blues Dallas. The event is titled “Rock the Wells” and its efforts are to raise funding t...
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Our whole lives we have watched one tragedy after another unfold in various parts of Africa. Ethiopia, Rwanda, Liberia, Somalia, Darfur, Uganda - the horrors of starvation, genocide and civil war b...
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Article on Veritas Fashion CEO/Founder/Designer Ty Clark aka "samo4prez"
A few months ago, I painted artwork live at an event for Falling Whistles, where the piece I painted ended up on Facebook. Somehow, in a move of social media magic, Ty Clark and I were “web introdu...
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Dare to Dream: A Falling Whistles Blog Entry
Here is an article from my friend Sean Carasso taken from the http://www.fallingwhistles.com/blog April 22, 2009 Dare to Dream by: Sean Carasso Hello everyone. This journal is a bit long a...
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Africa- post 1- Let us love. Let us be loved. That we all may grow.
Hi everyone! This is the first of many blog posts over the next few months. A group of 13 students (myself being one) and 1 professor from Concordia University Irvine are taking a two month m...
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my summer of a purposeful paycheck at causecast
ten things I have learned about my paycheck of love,purpose, learning, happiness, growing, and adventure this summer in LA! * I can never go back to working at a place where my heart is not,...
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Water. Water. Water & my Birthday
http://mycharitywater.org/EstherHavens This past year i’ve had the privilege of capturing photos and stories of charity: water projects in Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and Central African Republic. The g...
