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MEMBER BLOG TAG: peace corps

Thursday, July 31, 2008 3:11PM
 
A Peace Corps on Steroids
Tags: Africa, Education, Peace Corps, Youth, Joanne Leedom-Ackerman
 
This past Sunday in the late summer afternoon with a thunder and lightning storm at two, then blue sky and sun by four, we held a small family barbecue to welcome home from Africa the daughter of a good friend and to send off that night to Africa our future daughter-in-law. Both young women are graduate students in International Relations. The first was working in a refugee camp in Ghana with families soon to return to Liberia. The other, a PhD student, is researching the role of education in post conflict Uganda and earlier in the summer was in Malawi, where she and other graduate students had started a nonprofit to raise money for girls’  scholarships to high school (Advancement of Girls Education—AGE).
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