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Neurodiversity: Marie O’Riordan on the sense of belonging

Transformify

Marie, you were the last person to interview the late Nobel Peace Prize winner Mother Teresa, Saint Teresa of Calcutta, in her home in Calcutta, India in 1997. In 2006, I volunteered in an orphanage in Nairobi and Mombasa in Kenya. Pushing a child to be equally good in all areas simply doesn’t work.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Extremely-Sharp.com originally started with a few retail locations in 1997, and we quickly started the e-commerce site the next year. Karibu Markets began after a trip I took to Kenya in early 2014. We really started our company because of our shared love for adventure and the outdoors. 35) Fairer, More Equal World.