Ever since I can remember, I have dreamed of traveling to the vast and diverse continent of AFRICA. The stories of my grandparent's travels across the plains of Kenya stayed stuck in my head. Africa is home to so much beauty: the barren wastelands of the Sahara Desert (the world's largest), the snowcapped peaks of Mount Kilimanjaro, the pyramids of ancient Egypt to the north, the mist-covered volcanoes and lakes of the Rift Valley to the east, the dense, untamed jungles of the Congo, the beautiful coastal city of Cape town and the largest game reserves on the planet. But...there is another side to Africa that is not beautiful, the poverty, genocide, disease and orphans left in their wake. Nearly 6,000 people die of HIV/AIDS every day in Africa, and as a result of this epidemic,
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