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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

Have Fun - Do Good

The first opportunity that I had to go back was to work in a refugee camp in Botswana. I think that the only way that I got by was to be open and honest with myself about mistakes that I, or the organization, had made along the way and lessons that we had learned; and through that process, cleanse yourself of the guilt of holding it all in.