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Voûte nubienne Jennifer Garner on her baby food business and social impact Sixteen million kids are growing up in poverty today, said Jennifer Garner onstage at the Fast Company Innovation Festival on Thursday. Garner has testified multiple times before Congress and other governmental bodies on topics like early childhood and nutrition; she sits on the board of the children’s rights nonprofit Save the Children and is an artist ambassador for the group. Onstage on Thursday with cofounder and CEO John Foraker and Fast Company editorial director Jill Bernstein, Garner discussed how her focus on children’s rights issues led to her role as cofounder and chief brand officer of the baby food company Once Upon A Farm. Watch a video of their discussion below: The one-year-old brand sells cold-pressed, organic baby food in retail stores, online, and direct-to-consumer, but Garner and Foraker also described their social impact mission: making healthy baby food more affordable. “We’ve gotta do a better job of feeding our kids,” Garner said.

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Independent ratings and reviews of charities | Intelligent Givin Corps Mondial de Secours Why women are dressing up as Margaret Atwood's Handmaids Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale has remained popular since its publication in 1985. It has been translated into dozens of languages, made into a film in 1990, and even became a ballet and an opera. It is read in schools the world over. Most recently, there has been a new wave of interest in the dystopian story thanks to the TV adaptation by MGM and Hulu. However, it isn’t the adaptation alone that has caused this popularity, the novel has seen a reported 200% increase in sales since Donald Trump was elected as US president. The series takes place in the fictional nation state of Gilead (established in North America after an uprising has overthrown the US government and murdered the US president and Congress). And since the series has been aired, it has fed back into politics. Placards have been spotted at anti-Trump protests bearing slogans such as “The Handmaid’s Tale is not an instruction manual” and “Make Margaret Atwood fiction again”. A visual spectacle

INEE Toolkit - INEE Conflict Sensitive Education Pack INEE is happy to share permission to print INEE materials including the CSE Pack, contact MStraining@ineesite.org for permission and assistance. Conflict sensitive education refers to the design and delivery of education programs and policies in a way that considers the conflict context and aims to minimize the negative impact (contribution to conflict) and maximize positive impact (contribution to peace). INEE developed a Conflict Sensitive Education Pack to support the integration of conflict sensitivity in education policies and programs. For more guidance and tools, please see the Implementation Tools section below and the list of additional resources on conflict sensitive education.

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