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Casa Community Technology Hub

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil -- The lack of physical meeting spaces and Internet access severely limited the sharing of community solutions across Rio de Janeiro's favelas and other low-income communities. We saw that many community leaders, even those who are well known within their own communities a...

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Samba Salt

Port Region, Rio de Janeiro -- Working to revive grassroots Samba culture at the historic "Pedra do Sal" where the first sambas were composed and the slave trade left its mark, local residents got together to organize monthly "Samba Salt" parties. This is being done particularly by the Afro-Brazilian population ......

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The Community Week

s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands -- A Dutch vocational institute donates one week of the entire academic community's time to help society during an annual Community Week. For one week during the course of four years the students expose their talents to one another and to the community via dozens of development proje...

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