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Play pumps get girls to school on time

Courtesy of Guy Kawasaki’s Twitter feed: this 5 minute YouTube video about PlayPumps is a must-see. They install pumps to bring water up from underground in places where the women and girls would normally have to walk some distance every day for water. They aim to install the pumps in schools. Then, and here’s the [...]

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Girl Geek Dinners come to Wellington

Our local Webgrrls Aotearoa group long ago gave up trying to hold actual face-to-face meetings. We could never find a time that worked for most people, and some of our members bop around the country and the world. These days we have a quiet mailing list, with spurts of activity, and a website that gets [...]

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Women: goldminers and settlers

While the Māori came to New Zealand about a thousand years ago, Europeans started settling the country around the 1800s. In 1840 the British crown signed a treaty with the Māori people guaranteeing both sides certain rights. Disputes continue to this day… In the 1860s gold was discovered in Central Otago, bringing about a goldrush [...]

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