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Friendly Competition: Petty Traders on the Border between Rwanda and DRC

Post author By Rachel MarKowitz
Post date August 20, 2014
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Running a small business across any national border can be tricky, and especially between Gisenyi and Goma. The women who buy and sell goods here have spent their lives caught up in the chaos on the border between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). But they have more in common than conflict […]

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Building Trust with a Frisbee

Post author By Rachel MarKowitz
Post date July 22, 2014
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Justine* looked puzzled when she picked up the plastic disc. How were you supposed to play sports with this hard, flat thing? It didn’t look anything like a ball. After a few moments of hesitation, she and the other women at the youth center in Gisenyi, Rwanda had figured it out. They forgot all about […]

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