Sasha Fisher
@sashadfisher
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CEO & Co-Founder @sparkmg, #humansecurity #cdd #human #futureworld enthusiast
Rwanda, Malawi, Ghana, Ug, USA
Joined March 2011
Today is 15 yrs of Spark. One key learning: many supposed trade-offs don't actually exist. Scale versus local ownership? False choice—decentralization _enables_ scale. Community spirit versus excellence? Another myth—collective accountability strengthens our ability to envision
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Taxes aren’t just dues. They’re a down payment on our shared future. Let's make some 50 year investments together.
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I love paying taxes. Investing in roads, schools, safety. I've lived in countries w/o strong tax base, leaders weren't acct to their ppl. When leaders rely on their ppl for revenue, they answer to them—not to foreign donors and corporates. No taxation without representation cuts.
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👏to some of my fav humans, Gaya, Madeleine, Lonnie and more who are reshaping how we build the world forward via @YouTube.
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ISIS, Al—Qaeda, & Russia are winning in the Sahel, that’s bad news for American security. -> 40% surge in deaths in one year
washingtonpost.com
Russia is expanding its influence in Africa as democracy wanes, with military strongmen carrying out coups and the United States seeing its influence decline.
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this inverse correlation between strength of marketing and quality of product across politics/companies/ngos is frustratingly high.
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RT @SparkMG: Community power in action! Kamatanda Village, Gahunga Sector, @BureraDistrict, demonstrates incredible resilience. Through #FC….
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RT @SparkMG: In partnership w/ the @RwandaGov & @WorldBank, we hosted the Advancing Citizen Engagement (ACE) Project Phase I CloseOut Event….
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On USA thanksgiving day families in E Uganda dealt with a climate catastrophe that left over 20 dead. Families are bearing the burden of ills they did not create.
apnews.com
More bodies buried under the mud have been found in eastern Uganda and an injured person died in a hospital, bringing the death toll from this week’s landslides to 20.
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Generosity can boost your mood and health if you do it right via @WSJ.
wsj.com
Generosity can boost your mood and health if you do it right.
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Sudan: two main warring parties & numerous local armies leading to a possible failed state . we need a new political order, one that has more moms in power, and fewer militia.
bbc.com
Sudan is disintegrating after more than 18 months of civil war, aid chief Jan Egeland warns
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protecting gorillas & advancing local economies in Rwanda 👏
gorillafund.org
For more than two decades, our community engagement programs have tackled the challenges of food security and lack of livelihoods through programs like kitchen gardens, mushroom cooperatives, village...
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RT @sammednick: They fled war in #Sudan. Now, women in refugee camps in #Chad say they’re being forced to have sex to survive. Some women s….
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Some women who fled the war in Sudan say they face sexual exploitation as refugees in Chad. They say that men in displacement sites — including humanitarian workers and local security forces — have...
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Afghan women ‘banned from hearing each other’ in new Taliban rule. abuse in the form of isolation.
independent.co.uk
Prohibition comes two months after the Taliban banned women’s voices in public spaces
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RT @SparkMG: The Advancing Citizen Engagement (ACE) Project Steering Committee met in @CityofKigali to review the project's six-month progr….
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Stories of entrepreneurial families in Rwanda.
allafrica.com
Residents of Ruhanga Village, Musengo Sector, Gakenke District, realised that overcoming poverty depended on their own efforts, after a six-month training in 2021, which emphasised long-term and...
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The leadership crisis today: Leaders are counseled “toward caution, not conscience” via @NYTOpinion TY @darrenwalker.
nytimes.com
Those in positions of leadership fear they will say the wrong thing, or say what they believe to be the right thing in the wrong way.
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Congo's mpox outbreak & the impossible situation mothers are in
apnews.com
Sex workers are among those hardest-hit by the mpox outbreak in eastern Congo's Kamituga town. An estimated 40,000 sex workers reside there.
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government-funded ‘private social network’ attacked pesticide critics & promoted bad agri practices in Africa making people sick corp capture in action
theguardian.com
Network includes derogatory profiles of figures such as UN experts and food writer Michael Pollan, and is part of an effort to downplay pesticide dangers, records suggest
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