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Nata Village Blog

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Nata is a village of 5,000 people in Botswana. Botswana has the second highest HIV infection rate in Africa. Readers can donate directly to the village through the blog's PayPal account. According to the blog, 50% of the pregnant women in the village are HIV positive and 400 children have been orphaned by AIDS.

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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. I committed to learning more, and I went to Stanford and started studying Swahili and African studies. Completely random.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

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We are also in discussions in Peru, in Burkina Faso, and in Botswana as well. It is different in every place and oftentimes very laborious, but we are working on a potential program with The Open Society Institute in Myanmar. I am working with a foundation right now trying to plan out our Africa initiative for the remainder of the year.