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Article: American volunteers teach English in Madagascar
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- August 23, 2008
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American volunteers teach English in Madagascar
ANTANANARIVO, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- Twenty five Americans have
begun their two-year career of English-teaching in different areas
of Madagascar following their ten-week course of learning of the
local language, Malagasy.
Volunteers from American Peace Corps, who arrived in the Indian
Ocean island country last June, are scheduled to work for two years
in five selected areas over the country which started on Friday,
according to Les Nouvelles, a French-language daily, published on
Saturday.
A sworn-in ceremony was held here on Friday for these volunteers
by the U.S. Ambassador to Madagascar Niels Marquardt, ...