One of these projects with the Tanzania Community Development Trust Fund is the Mangomeni Teachers Training School near Dar es Salaam where safe and constructive care of children is available while young mothers engage in community activities. Another recent project helped to introduce solar cookers to improve the diet for African schoolchildren. The foundations most recent project is an extensive training program of special teams to work with refugees in South Vietnam. under a contract with the U.S. Governments Agency for International Development and the South Vietnamese Government. Initially. the training program is centered in Qui Nhon in Bin Dinh Province. where there is an urgent refugee problem. The program is aimed at teaching displaced South Vietnamese to help themselves. To carry out this program. the foundation has assembled an international staff of specialists who work under the direction of the foundations director for Vietnam. The refugee situation is not merely a problem but also an opportunity to advance the skills and education of an important segment of the South Vietnamese population so that. to the degree that it is possible. they might be enriched during this period. For this reason. personnel are being trained to handle vocational and home industry training for people in refugee centers. To help them do a better job. CDF trains mobile teams of Vietnamese workers to work with refugees. The use of CDF computer technology will keep records of the training program activities. A feedback system assures that training will be fully understood in spite of the language barrier.
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