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    Backgrounder: DR Congo
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            Once known simply as Congo and more recently (from 1971-1997) as Zaire, the Democratic Republic of Congo is a vast central African country of immense natural resources.        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    
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    Global Heroes Project
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            When I think back on it, my first experience volunteering overseas kind of sucked. It's a long story, but the short version is that I showed up in Nepal thinking that I was going to save the world and found out that really I was on an adventure tour posing as a volunteer programme.        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    
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