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Pupusas, Popsicles, and Purpose
Posted on 14. Dec, 2012 by Donna Fleetwood.
In December 2012, Bpeace volunteer Donna Fleetwood traveled to El Salvador with CEO Toni Maloney.
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Fast Runners flower in the Arizona desert
Posted on 01. Nov, 2010 by Donna Fleetwood.
Project Artemis and Bpeace work hand in hand with women in Afghanistan who show potential as business builders. Four Bpeace member/volunteers were on hand last week to see our Fast Runners learn and grow.
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Donna and Fran meet the gorillas
Posted on 24. May, 2010 by Donna Fleetwood.
At 440 lbs, Guhondo is the heaviest gorilla ever weighed. We spent an hour with him in the jungle today after an early morning ride to Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park.
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His mother inspired him to be a job creator
Posted on 22. May, 2010 by Donna Fleetwood.
I met with Herve, a finalist in the Bpeace Race to Innovation, who is attending college in Butare, to talk about his vision for creating jobs for women.
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Laughing loudly in Butare
Posted on 19. May, 2010 by Donna Fleetwood.
What we never really expected was that every single woman in our training here in Butare would bring so much joy to our training time together.
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Sabra rocks the house in Butare
Posted on 16. May, 2010 by Donna Fleetwood.
It was smiling faces and waving hands that the Bpeace team encountered at the first training for the Sweet Dreams ice cream store.
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Kigali: Today we cried for the loss
Posted on 16. May, 2010 by Donna Fleetwood.
How can you fully understand a genocide that took a million lives in three months? It’s very hard for us to imagine that this country was the site of one of the worst killing fields.