Word: salaams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Project Tangnyika was started in the fall of 1960, some six months before the Peace Corps began, and the first group of 18 teachers arrived in Dares Salaam, the capital of Tanganyika, in June, 1961. Initially a summer program, the Project took teachers for a full year in its second group, and last year the summer portion was dropped completely...
...there are nine students teaching in Tanganyika, six of whom are working primarily with refugees. Two members are teaching refugees from Rwanda at a camp in the northwestern part of the country, and four others are instructors at a special school for refugees fom southern Africa, located in Dares Salaam. Two members teach seventh and eighth graders in an African middleschool near the city and one is a history tutor at an adult-education college there...
Sara Louise Pettus '66, of Berkeley, Calif., died in Dar es Salaam, Tanganyika, Saturday from natural causes related to a ruptured diaphragm. Miss Pettus was a member of PBH's Project Tanganyika. Burial took place on Sunday in Dar es Salaam...
...Pettus has requested that friends of her daughter who wish to contribute to a memorial fund should do so through the Phillips Brooks House. This fund will be dedicated to Mary's Institute in Dar es Salaam, the school where Miss Pettus was teaching...
...refugee school is only one of the institutions located in Dar es Salaam because of the various liberation movements' presence there. More important politically is the headquarters of the African Liberation Committee, located appropriately enough on Independence Avenue. The Liberation Committee, better known as the Committee of Nine because of its nine member nations, was set up by the Organization of African Unity at the Addis Ababa Conference in 1963 to coordinate and give financial aid to the "freedom fighters" of the non-independent states. The committee meets regularly to hear petitions from the independence movements and to appropriate funds...