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Nata Village Blog

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Last month Nancy White wrote a post about a very cool fundraising blog, the Nata Village blog , that I want to share with you. Nata is a village of 5,000 people in Botswana. Botswana has the second highest HIV infection rate in Africa. blog fundraising philanthropy They also have a Flickr stream and a video blog.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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We have told him that unfortunately we don't have the funds to support such a walk, but he is so committed to it that he is already doing his fundraising and trying to find radio stations that will follow him. The first opportunity that I had to go back was to work in a refugee camp in Botswana. Completely random. How has that changed?

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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. The first two offices were great trials and so now, we are hoping to be able to expand more quickly, which is of course fundraising dependent, but that's increasing as well, so that is going well too. BB: How will you know when you have succeeded?