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Dec 2017
13m 18s

Localization as a Humanitarian Effort: T...

RWS
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 In the wake of the Great Flood of 1999, a small group of people went to Hue, Vietnam to help save the lives of children who had lost their parents in the tragedy. Who could have ever guessed at the time that teaching language localization skills would become a road map for leading so many of these children out of poverty and into a future of real oppor ... Show More
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