Fellowships Founded for Third World Aid
ATLANTA — The Carter Center has named a new fellowship program for Rep. Mickey Leland, who died in an airplane crash in 1989 while working to promote development in famine-plagued Ethiopia.
Former President Jimmy Carter announced the Mickey Leland Community Development Fellowships on Tuesday. He said that Leland, a Democrat from Texas, “tried to break down the almost insuperable obstacles” between people in the United States and in the Third World.
Leland fellows will participate in short-term study at the Carter Center of Emory University, where they will learn techniques for development projects in Africa.
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