Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 6, 2006

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

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

David Barnard has completed six of these grueling races: The Kalahari Desert in Botswana and South Africa (its name is derived from a Tswana word meaning "the great thirst"). This includes approximately 200 deaths of young children every year. The Sahara Desert in Egypt (the hottest desert on earth).

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

"Now, 18 months later, all of Juana's children are in school. For example, when women have this kind of specific skill-set training, they are more likely to have less children, to keep the children they do have in school, to be able to provide access to medical care, and things like that. She had four children.

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