Soon we will leave the United States for the West African countries of Chad, Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali and Senegal with transit between Chad and Niger through Cameroon, Benin, and Togo. A two – year grant awarded to The University of Findlay by the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs is, in part, responsible for our activity and increasing interest in this - the Sahelian - region of the world.
The focus of the grant is economic development in five francophone countries. Now in its second year, the rigid stuffiness of the program, formally identified as the Trans Saharan African Professionals Program, has become a richly woven and colorful fabric of personal relationships and individual stories.
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