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I have seen the transformative effect that education has in the lives of young women and their communities.

~Ann Cotton

Topics: Communities Education Effect Lives Seen Transformative Women Young Young Women

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The culture of philanthropy is alive and very well in Africa. International aid strengthens and extends it, but in the communities where I have spent time, it is all-pervasive.

~Ann Cotton

Topics: Africa Aid Alive Communities Culture International Philanthropy Spent Strengthens Time Very Well Where

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When I first worked in Zimbabwe, I was a complete novice. I was doing a study, and I continued to learn more and more through the years. And where I have learned most is in the village, from the communities.

~Ann Cotton

Topics: Communities Complete Continue Doing First Learn Learned More More And More Most Novice Study Through Village Where Worked Years Zimbabwe I Have Learned

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The exclusion of girls from education is an issue of justice. But it's also an issue of economics because it's holding families, communities, and nations back. The chiefs are often a bridge between the traditional and the modern world and are very powerful implements to change.

~Ann Cotton

Topics: Also Back Because Between Bridge Change Communities Economics Education Exclusion Families Girl Holding Issue Justice Modern Modern World Nations Often Powerful Traditional Very World

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The work being done by Linklaters to help organizations understand keys to success in the development sector serves as an important international affairs issue and crucial element in how all of us work to support service provision in impoverished communities in a lasting and effective way.

~Ann Cotton

Topics: Affairs Being Being Done Communities Crucial Development Done Effective Effective Way Element Help How Important Impoverished International Issue Keys Lasting Organizations Provision Sector Serve Service Success Support Understand Us Way Work

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At Camfed, we have focused on transforming the vicious cycle of poverty in many rural African communities into a cycle of opportunity. Alumnae of Camfed's programs go on to become role models and mentors for future generations of young students. We call this the 'virtuous circle,' and we know this is a model that works.

~Ann Cotton

Topics: African Become Call Circle Communities Cycle Focused Future Future Generations Generations Go Know Many Mentors Model Models Opportunity Poverty Programs Role Role Models Rural Students Transforming Vicious Virtuous Works Young

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Well, the terrible thing right now, and I don't know the statistics, but there's a growing concern in some communities about how rapidly people are sent from school to jail, how quickly they're put into the criminal justice system. And of course the rapidly growing number of brown people, both men and women, in prison. And this is terrible.

~Anna Deavere Smith

Topics: About Both Both Men And Women Brown Communities Concern Course Criminal Criminal Justice Criminal Justice System Growing How Jail Justice Know Men Men And Women Now Number People Prison Put Quickly Rapidly Right School Sent Some Statistics System Terrible Terrible Thing Thing Well Women

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Sometimes when I speak to groups or I'm interviewed by a journalist, I ask them to imagine their communities without Girl Scouts - to imagine the thousands of food drives and clothing and toy collections that would never take place if not for Girl Scouts.

~Anna Maria Chavez

Topics: Ask Clothing Collections Communities Drives Food Girl Girl Scouts Groups Imagine Journalist Never Never Take Place Scouts Sometimes Speak Take Them Thousands Toy Without Would

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Making personalized medicine a reality will require a strong partnership between 23andMe and the physician and medical communities.

~Anne Wojcicki

Topics: Between Communities Making Medical Medicine Partnership Personalized Physician Reality Require Strong Will

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Black churches have long been targets of white supremacists who burned and bombed them in an effort to terrorize the black communities those churches anchored. One of the most egregious terrorist acts in U.S. history was committed against a black church in Birmingham, Ala., in 1963.

~Anthea Butler

Topics: Acts Against Anchored Been Birmingham Black Bombed Burned Church Churches Committed Communities Effort History Long Most Targets Terrorist Them Those White Who

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