The aim of this programme was to create a model that would make it possible to forge a link between literacy and the socio-economic integration of neo-literate women by way of a post-literacy training programme to consolidate the literacy skills acquired and prepare them to run micro-projects.

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He has helped use money to create micro-financing projects much like his mother worked on in different parts of the world, and all of those are certainly actively under consideration.

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In Africa, the corporate citizenship programs for companies like Shell, De Beers and Monsanto consist mostly of small-scale social projects like health clinics or micro-credit schemes.

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And while most of the projects are micro-specks in the larger landscape of federal spending, they mean a lot to the beneficiaries and to the lobbyists like Lowery who help to secure them.

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Driven by Lumus' patented Light-guide Optical Element, a micro-display pod, and the Optical Engine which projects light into the lens -- where it is reflected back to the user's eye via reflectors embedded in the lens -- the Lumus' DK-32 delivers a bright 720p 3D-capable display that only weighs 27 grams.

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Two years later, Sasha is executive director of the organization, she has raised tens of thousands of dollars and the group has made micro-grants for more than 20 projects, from building a sewer system to installing electricity, in Rwanda and Uganda.

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Global Outreach Alliance: Steven Dee Wrigley, the founder of the Global Outreach Alliance, serves people in Cambodia, Kenya and Israel with locally managed projects, including schools, scholarships, mentoring, micro-enterprise training, micro-savings and other efforts to help people break the poverty cycle.

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