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Conquering a Cruel Continent for a Cause

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Ultramarathons are extreme running events: 250-kilometer (155-mile) foot races over five or six days in the harshest environments on Earth. 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").

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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He was able to get some work digging pit latrines to put himself through one semester of his remaining high school education, and then he ran out of money. The first opportunity that I had to go back was to work in a refugee camp in Botswana. Completely random. So, that's what we did. We would bring students.