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Complaints by a Tanganyikan official that American Peace Corps teachers are poorly trained will not affect Phillip Brooks House's Project Tanganyika.
Alison Leibhafsky '64, Director of Project Tanganyika for 1963, said that the Harvard-Radcliffe program has received little criticism since its inception in the summer of 1961. She added that although the bulk of PBH's work was in the teaching field, no radical changes were planned for the future.
Criticism of the Peace Corps was leveled Tuesday by the secretary of the Tanganyikan National Teachers Union. The African official told a news conference that the English of many Corps teachers was "incomprehensible."
"They are learning [teaching techniques] while they are here. Children in schools also complain they cannot fully understand the English the American teachers use," he said.
The PBH program generally seems to be meeting with more success than the Peace Corps," Miss Leibhafsky commented. "Our people are making a more conscious effort to overcome the Negro's natural sense of inferiority to the white man," she said. "Peace Corps members live far above the subsistence level--usually in white parts of town. Except in the capital our people live in the Negro sections of towns."
She added that the youth of PBH workers and their freedom from any governmental ties had contributed greatly to the Project's success.
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