Nick Kristof Spotlights RAISE Hope for Congo in The New York Times

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June 20, 2010

New York Times columnist Nick Kristof profiled RAISE Hope for Congo's work to end Congo's conflict minerals crisis, and features our Mac vs. PC ad spoof. Read "Death by Gadget" on the New York Times website, watch the video, and share both with your friends.

"An ugly paradox of the 21st century is that some of our elegant symbols of modernity — smartphones, laptops and digital cameras — are built from minerals that seem to be fueling mass slaughter and rape in Congo. With throngs waiting in lines in the last few days to buy the latest iPhone, I’m thinking: What if we could harness that desperation for new technologies to the desperate need to curb the killing in central Africa?"

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