Teach With Africa Fellows of 2009,

I am privileged to be able to congratulate you on your first steps of a long journey with Teach With Africa and LEAP. This will be a journey of: hope and despair; pain and joy; clarity and confusion; intimacy and isolation. The crises of our unjust world may well take you from the relatively safe realm of external knowledge realities to the high risk of internalised and painful personal experience. Thank you for being so willing to risk in order to be a part of sharing. We ask that you abandon your expert knowledge and stay open to your vulnerable incompleteness as you make this journey.

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Dear Friends and Colleagues,

I have become aware that I am preparing for Africa in my imagination, sorting through fantasies, fixed ideas, fears, anxieties. Who are these people? What is this continent? What inside of me is already in conversation, in contact, with this thing I am calling Africa?

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Support Teach with Africa while you celebrate life with an award-winning bottle of Windsor Vineyards wine! On the weekend of June 26-28, the Windsor Vineyards Tasting Room in Tiburon will be contributing 10% of your purchase price to Teach With Africa. (Read on to learn about the custom Teach with Africa wine label!)

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