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Bringing RAIN to the Desert

By John Walters on Monday, December 15, 2003.

Three years ago, Bess Palmisciano was a corporate attorney for the biggest bank in Boston. Her life changed when she took a trip to Africa and met the Tuareg, the nomadic people of Niger. As she got to know them, she came to understand their struggle to both survive and preserve their culture. Her New Hampshire based non-profit, RAIN, is aimed at helping the Tuareg do just that.

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