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fs Ae en AeA los a. Second eal : __—By Viva Richmond Graham OP! TION CROSSROADS AFRICA eee of Three Parts) “Tm very sei Everything is different here, put I love it!” — sue ee Did you know cee one of our Belleville girls in Africa? To bridge the gap be- |) guly 4 other than _G. A. Bradford, 298 we went to Avrankou, where we'll be building the clinic, and A in typical Dahomian tradition, the yaa of concrete 44. materials had been delay- James H. 4g, : “We have started working. On Thursday not yet Albert Street. Ss) s moved by “thi possibilities” ee real action, when Dr. as Af d and we were unable to start. rice However, we were warml: inson, the founder of Operation Ciestchi is i ' A xe at Western University ( where Julie was major- idaearene ay ee pa came to the sub-prefect’s office| ing in French, and recently graduated) to explain : Ie Our first view of Africa was one of an arid, flat ‘country with|they led us into the centre o! of sand. As we’ ‘town, chanting and dancing all ents, teachers, professors 204] greenery: and ‘at Abidjam -thelour proje te sub: ees explained to his green forest with the occasion-fpeople that “they were to help a al clearing here tis and not to be lazy; that we p and this effort| where villages were establish-)rere counting on them as much oT really apg ties progenitors of| ed. The few roads could be ea the Peace i ily detected, as they appeared as they were counting on us.” They clapped and cheered and mitted, and ots Kenedy aa seemed satisfied. We were then to date, over 1,000 perso ODS ts. participated from all Al to see a North and South America, since | distinct system of lagoons which its inception in ae when just| extend from a few miles in “ 60 students and a staff of 12] the coast to the edge of t teachers ve ea the} woodlands. This oe is simi- factory which was most inter- esting, for they obtain many pr taken on a tour of a palm - oil oom ‘oduets from this tree, which|| + Broadfords Julie |ENJOYS SIGHT-SEEING We have done much sight- seeing. We visited an Agricult- ural School which is organized by the Scouts. Young boys are trained here for a year and then sent to work on farms. Scout- ing is well developed here, but unlik train pa boys in tela ‘apices Farmin; turday we were favited to a pag presented by a local group and following this, there] was a dance. The play was the story of the dethroning of an an- cient king and it was interpret- ed by folk-songs and dances. 1 am doing as much as I can. I try to take advantage of every opportunity to talk with people, to walk in the streets, to be do- ing something. I feel I am ac- complishing something, What? — in little ways it is easy to bag bebe people here — a smile, and “bonjour” is worth 2 mitlion di dollars, I think teach- ine here would be most reward- a We visited the father of the Dahomian Attache to Washing- coming here and it was hard to imagine him living in the mud) which had been his home groups, made “a very lange 743 lar to Dahomey i significant impact upon the FORM OF TRANGPORTA ION {goad mot {mmpactant ehist in! Av-| June 28: “We drove from La-| rankou. He received us in a room and we sat in a big panne | lective stand-| member of the United| ‘The high-lighto speaking by 3 foie Relea Tee who |his presentation of two live tur- States Information Service, country — Dahomey, wi ‘United States took us to our pnts in a bats which we brought back 2 RR ened Girls’ Secondary Se 1 in Por-|with us and which our cook We are delighted wath plucked, cleaned and We have |c I have been acting as tr: pses of it See another one aim . We have our ; sheets are sup- pe! French by one of his sons. baat aia a we cool even need |I then translated this into Eng. red: 48 jn to use sleeping ish for our group. When we Tune 28, 1985: “We arrived in him the procedure wa: the |thanked Lagos, after a smooth 11081 There is aes at 1 who will wash and ae reversed: English - erent = k [dialect think that-it would be} » So we are mos