The Difference

Life Lessons From the Guinean Backroads

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Many years ago I lived in Guinea, West Africa during a stint as a volunteer grant writer for the International Rescue Committee. My position meant traveling around the country to visit refugee camps and report on our programs. The transportation was usually hot, crowded and unreliable: The IRC owned several aging Land Cruisers that had no AC and had been beat to hell by the African roads. Because…