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Peace Corps: Beninese Teacher Earns Mandela Washington Fellowship
August 04, 2019
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 -- The Peace Corps issued the following news release:

Emignogni Mahtoundji Noe Rousseau, a long-time counterpart to Peace Corps volunteers in Benin, was honored with the esteemed Mandela Washington Fellowship for his work educating Beninese youth.

Peace Corps Education Volunteer Conner Swan met Rousseau in the fall of 2017, when both were teaching English in Niaro, a rural community in Benin. Rousseau was Swan's Peace Corps counterpart, a person . . .

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