The unseen investments in Ngamiland

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On the long road into Maun, the signs of Botswana’s economic evolution are easy to miss. The lodges, the safari trucks, the occasional fenced homestead are all familiar markers in a region shaped by tourism and subsistence living.

But beyond the souvenir stalls and cattle posts, something more fundamental is unfolding. It is not a new airstrip or a five-star resort. It is not even something you can see from the roadside. It is access to healthcare, finally, quietly, expanding in a part of the country that has too often gone without.

And behind that expansion, perhaps surprisingly, is the Citizen Entrepreneurial Development Agency (CEDA).

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The unseen investments in Ngamiland

On the long road into Maun, the signs of Botswana’s economic evolution are easy to miss. The lodges, the safari trucks, the occasional fenced homestead are all familiar markers in a region shaped by tourism and subsistence living.

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