For Love of Africa

By: Import User

Updated: November 3, 2007

Hundreds gathered in Little Rock Saturday night "For the Love of Africa" Royal Benefit Ball. It's an outreach effort by a Little Rock-based non-profit foundation called the "African Women's Health Project International." While much of the focus in poorer countries is on the basics like food and water, the benefit was designed to fund solution to increasing cancer rates among young women that are frequently ignored. For more information go to www.awhpi.org.

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