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Partnering for Peace - Friends of Peace Corps and Rotary posted an articleRotary and PCV Bringing Books To Botswana see more
Two Peace Corps volunteers, Kip and Maureen Doran, took two years off from their professions as a psychiatrist and a nurse to see if they could help with the HIV/AIDS situation in Botswana, where there is a 25% infection rate in the adult population. They ended up writing a book called Power Parents – Children and Sex. The book is designed to help parents, teachers, and counselors with strategies and techniques to reach young people about the threat and spread of HIV/AIDS. The Ministry of Education recognized the value of the book and requested 1,000 copies for distribution to schools and libraries. With the help of a $3,000 grant from the Denver Rotary World Community Service Committee (WCS) and other Rotary clubs in the metro Denver areas, 750 books were shipped in November 2014.