To receive a donation from within your community can be extremely empowering.

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Their selection criteria, blend of intellectual growth and hands-on leadership development and their approach to connecting and empowering the community of ALA students and graduates are atypical and extremely inventive.

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So, Price, who used to work in software, and chose fire fighting as his second career, is now going back to his roots and working with his fire district to create a technology that is empowering the community to help save lives.

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They were not surrendering their rights when they helped law enforcement but were empowering themselves as a community.

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Overall, this indicates that in addition to empowering individuals, a community-based approach that offers opportunities literacy skills training and development has a strong and positive social impact which in turn lead to community development.

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Apart from empowering teachers from the Zithobeni community, the training will also test some models of UNESCO's Draft Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Curriculum in order to subsequently adapt it for the needs of rural communities.

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She now employs eight women in with the dual-vision of empowering others and conserving the natural resources in her community.

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The approach rewards contributors by providing them with useful tools or blueprints, empowering them to create and popularize innovative sustainable solutions, and providing a support and innovation community.

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