January 16, 2009

State Department Program Pairs Foreign Students With Community Colleges

By KARIN FISCHER

Growing up poor in Pretoria, South Africa, Lesego Ellis Makhubela watched with frustration as foreign aid flowed into his continent. His fellow Africans didn't need a handout, he believed, but rather higher education to help advance their economies.

"What Africa needs," Mr. Makhubela, 22, says, "is skills."

So when he spotted a notice at a library operated by the U.S. Embassy there about a new State Department scholarship program to provide foreign students practical training at

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