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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. They also have a Flickr stream and a video blog. blog fundraising philanthropy Readers can donate directly to the village through the blog's PayPal account.

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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. And is there anything else that you wanted to talk about FORGE's work, or philanthropy, or international development that you didn't get to cove r? I committed to learning more, and I went to Stanford and started studying Swahili and African studies.