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...Project Tanganyika has selected 20 students to go to Africa this summer. Ten of the students will stay only for the summer, while the other ten will remain in Tanganyika for a year...
Stookey said that the project sought affiliation with PBH that first year, but PBH refused to "adopt" it then because it did not have the time for two major fund raising activities (PBH had just started Project Tanganyika). Since then, the Indian Project has found that the tribes would be willing to pay expenses, thus avoiding the complexities of fund raising...
...addition to teaching much-needed English courses in Dar es Salaam and other major cities in Tanganyika, the Project hopes to place volunteer workers in hospitals, dispensaries, or public health programs across the country. Bennett said there might also be famine relief work such as two project members did during the summer...
Seven members of last summer's project are presently teaching in the East African country and another, David R. Ebel '62, is working as a civil servant for the Treasury Department of the Tanganyika Government, Bennett, who stayed to manage the relief program after the project's first summer in 1961 and ended up in charge of a camp for Batusi refugees from Ruanda, praised the freedom that the project offers its members. He also cited several students who have remained in Africa on their...
Bennett emphasized that an extensive orientation program will be carried out during the year for all members of the project. Extra reading on Africa will be assigned and the project hopes to establish seminars on Tanganyika and related topics...