Word: gambia
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Over the next few years, the threesome set up pilot programs in Uganda and Gambia, where with the support of Save the Children and the local governments, they helped acquire motorcycles and train riders and technicians. In Lesotho they built a fleet of 47 bikes that delivered health-care services from 1991 to 1996 without a breakdown. By the end of that period, the Colemans were running Riders for Health as an independent organization and had expanded into Ghana and Zimbabwe, where they introduced a motorcycle-and-sidecar combination that can be used as a mini-ambulance and double...
...slides behind a verdant neem tree and the scorching heat of the late afternoon eases a few degrees, the last ferry pulls away from the bank of the River Gambia. Normally, the rusting blue barge would be packed with people and vehicles, while the road that runs up to the river would teem with taxis and trucks, traders shouting for business and farmers herding cows and donkeys. But this afternoon, the Gambian port of Farafenni is a ghost town. Bereft of customers, traders are closing their shops, pulling down corrugated shutters and tugging on the padlocks to make sure they...
...Department of Music hosts Eric Charry, whose study of Mande music has carried him to Senegal, Mali, Gambia and Guinea. Charry, a professor of music at Wesleyan University, will speak on Jazz and Africa. 5:30 p.m. Free and open to the public; Room 2 in the Music Building...
...student group IMPACT ran the pageant as a fund raiser supporting grassroots charities in Nepal, Kenya, Gambia and China, and according to IMPACT President Oliver Soong ’04, the event brought in just over...
...MISS HARVARD PAGEANT. It’s what Miss America would be like if you were to upgrade brains and talent, and add a few men in drag. Presented by IMPACT to raise money for education and emergency relief in Kenya, Gambia, China and Nepal. Friday, March 14, at 9 p.m. Tickets $6, available at the Harvard Box Office or by phone at (617) 496-2222. Leverett House Dining Hall...