Orientation in the Desert

In August, fifty volunteers of the International Educators for Africa (IEFA) program 2010 spent a week in Arizona. For a week we discussed education reform and sustainable development in Africa.

Here I was able to put faces and names together of people with whom I had communicated since April! This was a gathering of both new and returning volunteers. It was a chance to learn more about IFESH, the work that needs to be done to meet its goals.
There were people from all over the US -the young as well as the more mature, couples, singles, an ex-marine, retired administrators, college students and educators on sabbatical! An energetic and diverse group.

This year IFESH is working in nine African nations. Some participants received their travel documents on the last day of orientation, but not the Nigerian Team. We were told "soon come"...and so we wait!

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