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Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria

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The Importance of Being Accessible to Everyone

I was lucky enough to travel to Eswetini, used to be called Swaziland. It's a very small landlocked country in southern Africa that's kind of surrounded on all sides by South Africa and Mozambique. I went with actually a group of psychology students here at the university where I'm doing my finishing internship. And we did some, you know, interventions there. But one of the schools that we were in, there was a child who also lived in one of the camps. He was five years old and he didn't, he couldn't verbalize. Nobody really knew where he came from or his HIV status. They didn't really know what was wrong.

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