Sierra Leone II: January 2012

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Visit Ghana with Rufus as a Guide!

Greetings all!

Pray all is well. I wish to share with you our 2012 GHANA TOUR. If you know of anyone interested, please share the news. In addition, I invite you to read and see a photo gallery of our participation in the excavation of the tomb of KARAKHAMUN in Luxor, Egypt last summer (2011) at: www.jahkente.org.

Peace/Hotep

Rufus

P.S.

Still thinking of the great time we had at the Reunion. Peace and Love to all.

About us...

"Sierra Leone II," a group of sixty men and women, trained together at SUNY, New Paltz, in the summer of 1962, in preparation for Peace Corps service in West Africa. Most trainees were newly-minted liberal arts graduates, drawn from all over the U.S. Despite the fact that few of us had prior teaching experience--or even teacher training--we had been selected to fill teaching slots at secondary schools in Sierra Leone--a country many of us had never heard of prior to receiving our invitation to training. Our project was part of an audacious attempt to help education in Africa leap ahead by preparing African students to attend college and then fill the teaching ranks themselves in vastly-expanded school systems. Walter Carrington was our Project Director, and Mike McCone the Assistant Director, from 1962-63; Don McClure directed the program for the second year of our service.