FOP will sponsor a paricipant from Penyem village in the Harvard Kennedy School of Government Bridge Builders Conference to be held in Cambridge, MA from February 25 to March 3. The conference is designed to allow participants to "build bridges" with Harvard students, faculty members, development organizations and members of the public by sharing their skills, successes and struggles in international development and community organizing. Last year's participants were from Afganistan, Mozambique, Ecuador and Burkina Faso. Robin Cherry, a student at the Kennedy School and a director on the board of FOP, participated in the conference last year and nominated Nyima to be a participant in the 2007 conference.
We are very excited to sponsor Nyima Jarju at the conference this year! Nyima is a school teacher in Penyem who is the women's development liason to the Village Development Committee. She is also one of two women representatives for her area on the equivalent of the "state legislature" in her region of The Gambia.
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