SUMMARY:
The first part of this LogBook recounts how a challenge from Don’s students early in his teaching career leads to him meeting an influential mentor, Dr. James H. Robinson from Harlem, raising money for scholarships for African students, and helping to form the African Students Foundation (ASF) nationally. The second part of this LogBook explains how an invitation to a weekend layman’s church retreat leads to Don’s first direct connection with the African continent. Don and others take up a challenge by Jim Robinson to create a Canadian arm of the Crossroads Africa organization that Robinson founded to link young Africans and North Americans for mutual learning and action.
EXCERPTS:
- Excerpt 8: Meeting My First Serious Mentor (Other Than My Father)
- Excerpt 9: Co-creating the African Students Foundation
- Excerpt 10: Building National and International Partnerships through the African Students Foundation
- Excerpt 11: The ASF Organizes Its Own Version of an African Airlift in 1961 and Ends Its Activities in 1967
- Excerpt 12: Life Lessons from involvement in the ASF and a Lasting Friendship with Jimmy Kanja
- Excerpt 13: The Birth of Overseas Volunteerism – The Creation of Canadian Crossroads Africa
- Excerpt 14: My First Work Camp Experience with Crossroads Africa – Nigeria 1960
- Excerpt 15: Growth of Canadian Crossroads and my Second Work Camp in Ethiopia in 1963
- Excerpt 16: Crossroads Legacies
KEY LEADERSHIP THEMES:
- International Development
- Mentorship
- Building partnerships