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More than I came for: A year in Peace Corps Botswana

What does it mean to do something that genuinely matters — and what happens to you when you do? Ruksana spent a year living in Samochima, a village of 1,600 people in Botswana's Okavango Panhandle—no coffee shops, no theaters, a fan that had its own opinions about when to work, water that showed up when it felt like it, and heat that considered 90°F a cool day.