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Nata Village Blog

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The blog documents not only the lives of the people in Nata, but is a tool to raise funds for a support group for residents living with AIDS, an AIDS prevention program where youth use the arts to educate others about AIDS, and the Nata clinic. Nata is a village of 5,000 people in Botswana. blog fundraising philanthropy

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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The first opportunity that I had to go back was to work in a refugee camp in Botswana. In order to try to replace some of that revenue, we built a state of the art Web 2.0, I committed to learning more, and I went to Stanford and started studying Swahili and African studies. Completely random. Is that how it works?