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"I look at myself as having the potential to be as strong and caring as the amazing women I met in Kenya."

Kate Cummings (Tufts University) volunteered in 2009 as a Peace Fellow for Vital Voices in Africa.

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Help Disabled Entrepreneurs and Blind Students in Bangladesh

The Blind Education and Rehabilitation Organization (BERDO), an AP partner in Bangladesh, helps people with disabilities to become full members of their community through microcredit and education projects. Working through Peace Fellows, AP has invested heavily in BERDO, by visting beneficiaries, promoting the microcredit model, launching an appeal following the typhoon, and raising money for BERDO's Braille library.

The microcredit program has been a major success and currently 98% of the loans have been fully repaid. In 2009, BERDO hopes to scale up the program with AP's support.

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Rasheed Rahman (left) is a recipient of BERDO's IT trainings for the blind and is now employeed at HSBC's headquarters in Dhaka.








Danita Topcagic (left), AP Peace Fellow, and Ashadul Huq, 7, at the BERDO office in Dhaka. Ashadul is one of eight children living and studying at  BERDO's School of Happy World. He lost one eye to typhoid fever. Danita, a former Bosnian refugee, volunteered at BERDO, and helped the group to promote its model of microcredit.





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