Winrock Innovations Newsletter | April 2019
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FACING THE FUTURE TOGETHER 
Cambodian trafficking victims find love at Survivors' Forum

Kannitha was trafficked in Malaysia, enduring unspeakable treatment at the hands of her captors. Leap was thrown in an Indonesian jail along with a ship full of other trafficked men. They returned home with nothing. Then ... they went to a USAID-funded Cambodia Trafficking in Persons project Survivors’ Forum — and nothing was ever the same. 
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MID-SOUTH STARTUPS JOURNEY FROM DREAM TO REALITY  
On April 17, Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson joined Winrock CEO Rodney Ferguson and Delta Regional Authority Co-Chairman Chris Caldwell in Little Rock to honor eight Delta I-Fund alumni companies as they showcased their work. 
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HOW SOLAR CAN KEEP FISH FRESH IN MOZAMBIQUE 
A new project called GreenTech is working to commercialize solar chillers for smallholders in five African countries, including Mozambique, where the electrical grid covers only 28 percent of the population. 
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SHAPING GREEN GROWTH IN MALAWI 
This landlocked country faces many challenges, but has jumped ahead of more developed nations by integrating greenhouse gas accounting into its policy and decision-making. Learn how Winrock is part of the process.
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CELEBRATING VOLUNTEERS 
They train trainers, assess institutions, develop action plans — even teach soap-making. On National Volunteer Week, April 7-13, we celebrated the more than 6,200 volunteers we've fielded since 1991 — and all the future volunteers we've yet to meet.   
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National Women’s History Museum: Winrock’s Bernal featured in article on women trailblazers in science

Arkansas Business: Delta I-Fund alumni startups celebrated at Demo Day

Mongabay: Winrock’s Pearson says if recent rates of Cerrado deforestation in Brazil continue, this would be devastating to its ecosystem services

(Bangladesh) Daily Sun: Call to improve child labor in dried fish sector mentions CLIMB project
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