April 20, 2006
Ford Plans to Expand Global Fellows Program
Idemudia Lawrence is a busy man.
Last week he helped hearing-impaired athletes compete in Nigeria's National Sports Festival while spending his free time revising his plan to curtail begging by deaf people in the streets of Abuja, the African nation's capital.
Mr. Lawrence, chairman of the Abuja Association of the Deaf, says his dedication to assisting others was fostered in part by the Ford Foundation, which in 2003 awarded him one of its prestigious international fellowships
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