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Nata Village Blog

Have Fun - Do Good

Last month Nancy White wrote a post about a very cool fundraising blog, the Nata Village blog , that I want to share with you. Readers can donate directly to the village through the blog's PayPal account. Nata is a village of 5,000 people in Botswana. Botswana has the second highest HIV infection rate in Africa.

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Conquering a Cruel Continent for a Cause

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David Barnard has completed six of these grueling races: The Kalahari Desert in Botswana and South Africa (its name is derived from a Tswana word meaning "the great thirst"). On his blog , he says: "I am especially running this race for you. This includes approximately 200 deaths of young children every year.