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To truly understand that attaining accessible education, accessible healthcare, and ending poverty, means ensuring that we are cognizant of the voices and lives of people like me; whether it's people who are brown skinned, African, Indigenous, Queer identifying, disabled

— Katlego Kai Kolanyane-Kesupile

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Source: #TurnItAround UN SDG Action Campaign | Katlego K Kolanyane-Kesupile (Botswana) (September 2020) Retrieved 26/07/2022
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