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Article: Students help villagers in Senegal.
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- Connecticut Post
- Article date:
- March 11, 2007
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Byline: Andrew Brophy
Mar. 11--FAIRFIELD -- It's nowhere near the size of their 200,000-square-foot school on Unquowa Road. It lacks the computers, film projectors, desks and most of the other equipment in the gleaming $46 million school that opened here four years ago. It does not even have electricity.
But Roger Ludlowe Middle School students who visited Yenne Kelle School in Senegal, West Africa, last month returned to Fairfield with a deep appreciation for what makes kids happy. "We were prepared to see poverty. Even though they were in that condition, they were happy with what they had and were really happy to see us," Megan Langlais, ...