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      • Digital Design Fabrication Workshop: a collaboration of Faros, AB3D, MIT D-Lab, and UNHCR
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      • How to make charcoal briquettes from agricultural waste
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      • Rebel Innovator | Honey Bajaj
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      • SurgiBox: "154K subscribers What if we could make safe, sterile operating rooms universally available?"
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      • Twende: Teaching design, producing prototypes!
      • User-Centered Design: Creating Better Solutions for Global Challenges
      • VIDEO: Interview with Erika Garcia
      • VIDEO: Interview with Maria Margarita Gamarra
      • VIDEO: Interview with small-scale gold miner Aida Luz Mosquera
      • Violence Meter: Addressing Gender-Based Violence Among Artisanal Miners in Colombia
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