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allowance in Canada. Nigeria. Another teacher Before you leave for your Iwhorecently returned is posting, CUSO will orient . Marl?” mute, Who also worked you to the culture and climate in ngerla- MY shu-faband and you are going to, and give I worked together in Ghana for sane special training ((2.9. two years before I came to

teacher training) needed to UPEI to do a Science degree do the job, in Home Economics. We both

found our experience there very worthwhile, and we, hope we ccntributed as much as we received in terms of awareness and personal growth. CUSO wants your involvenent. The time has long past when a CUSO worker's contribution to Tanzania, or Belize, or any other developing country affected only that country. Two years spent in developnent overseas is spent in the betterment of the global

new graduates.

go in a? wide range of occupations: Accountants, Business Development Officers- Civil Engineers and Tech- nologists, Teachers, Nutritionists, Hcme Econcmists, Nurses, Doctors,. Foresters, and Farm Managers.

Don't be deluded by the CUSO can't offer regular name, CUSO does not mean salary reviews and increases young, idealistic university because they do not Pay You: ‘ graduates 'doing their bit' the requesting government in developing nations. does-‘roughly eqUiValent t0 Instead, it means highly— a natimal With Your job skilled individuals par— WhiCh is 6110‘th 130' liVe 01’! ticipating in the field of comfortablV‘ and d0 sane development.- travelling. Accommodation

is provided by the overseas

Each year, several hundred country and is usually close Canadians fill positions to your place of work, in developing countries in Depending on the job, the Africa, Asia, Latin America, rent may be free or sub— the Caribbean, and the sidized,

Western Pacific. The

requests also receives are in CUSO picks up the bill for response to overseas Govern— your travel and settling in ments and agencies, and at your post. Some pro-

for the most part, are for grams have in—country languaﬂe- periods of mo years. A training and orientations. high proportion of CUSO CUSO pays your way back at workers are university the end of your contract graduates, scme of them and gives you a resettlement

ST. PATRICK'S DAY

AN ALTEINATIVE - CUSO FY Elizabeth Shears

If you are graduating this year, this is the time of decision-making and the weighing of alternatives. One of those alternatives is an overseas posting with CUSO.

CUSO also pays for insurance-- medical and life-- and makes arrangements to defer loans for those with them.

Your main concern working overseas, as it would be in Canada, is to perform (your job canpetently, but you will be living in a foreign culture, and personal quali- ties such as initiative, adaptability, sensitivity, and a sense of humour will go a long way toward making carrmmity. ~ your stay enjoyable and worth- ‘ The person to contact on while. Living and working with campus is Suzanne deJong at people of another culture can the Carrpus Manpower Office. provide an awareness and in- My husband is Chairman of sight that can‘t be gained the PEI CUSO Ccrrmittee. any other way, if you allow He may be contacted: c/o AV yourself to become involved. Dept. , Holland College,

Maurice Perry, an Education _Weymouth Street, Charlottetown, graduate in 1978, is working P.E.I. CIA 421 with CUSO as a teaCher in' (tel. 892-4191 local 170)

Eyewitness Account.

Matt Maychalr

By Mau reen Ha rtman

To commemorate St. atmosphere of "the Irish c invasion of Afghanistan;wl}0 North America, Klimt/5W Patri ck' 5 Day , l980, graveya rd“ . J . [Ivan A hasfoured refugee camps in spent a week in Afghanistan, several members of the Dowling must be commended 2 2:32:32 aflinfvrzi‘siéame to 333mg? Pakman m UPEI staff presented for his role as story D to ask Canadians to Mob," Shorish, an Afghan The Weaver's Grave by teller, as must Olga I support Afghans resisting the professor now in the United —"—_—'—‘Seumas OiKeHy a't' the MacDonaid for her part as Sovréts. . States, joined Kurayshi .in Chaplaincy Centre. Adapted the widow, and J. T. Place, a 75713;":3'332;‘ﬁ'dijbﬁ’: $2;‘é§'“"'"? l“? 5°“? '"' for dramatic reading by M. F-. HennesseY’ and J: J’ possibleforhimtoconveythe He said the Soviets have Brendan O'Grady, it Coyle, for their functions U "sad, agonizing and painful” massacred 250,0m Afghans" related the story of old as the old men. All voices sufferinghesaw. and forcedanothermillionto men and the search for amazingly adopted an Irish I: - sthlallltszllgzﬁihe fleletorefugeecampsrf" I

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. . 9 . . ' . H b _ T Unless you know the stab of moral outrage expressed traditional in Sh mUS ' C Paddy 5 Day W' e gone' Y in your own chest, you will against the Soviet invasion of I — - — — — — _ — not know its intensity, its [afghanistan’ my people “(in ’ ' v magnitude.” V vanish,”Shorish added. ' ‘ P Kurayshi said Afghans who Kurayshi and Shorish, and _ R have fled their country live the Muslim students’ ‘ E without adequate medical associations who are ' 5 care in camps in neigh- sponsoring their trip, want bouringPakistanandlran. Canadians to urge their.’ , . 5 He said theAfghan climate government to boycott the is as cold as Canada’s, but as Moscow Olympics and give

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Describing scenes of horior, an eyewitness of the Soviet

many as nine refugees huddle together in small canvas tents that have nofloors.

Kurayshi said the refugees left without regrets because the Soviets will not allow Afghans to practise their Islamic religion.

"I saw impassive, in- different faces and I also saw faces with a burning rage for revenge,” he said. "But I saw no. tears. This is what sets the Afgans apart from other refugees in the world.”

Kurayshi, born in northern Pakistan on the Afghan border, came to the United States in 1971. The editor of a

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money and arms.,.;t_a_ the Afghan rebels.

They said axrefagee‘fund has been established.

""If you “do not ‘ help Afghanistan now . . . in the long run‘ you've invited the Russian oppression on yourselves,” Shorish said.

Kurayshi said the Afghan "freedom fighters” canbeat the :Soviets if given missiles and anti-tank guns.

He called the West "sick" and accused North Americans of. being unaware andselfish. .

"Afghans," he said, "know hthodie."

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