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KIDS AND CAUSES

California Teenager Sends Aid to Africa

By Meg Sommerfeld

As an American child living in Zimbabwe, Alexandra Govere, now 15, says she tried to do what little she could to help the many AIDS orphans who approached her on the streets. She especially remembers the time she gave a coin to a boy, then watched in horror as he was suddenly encircled by a mass of other children seeking the coin.

That incident...

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