Embassy Provides Books to Schools, Educational Kits to Students

A happy student at the High School in Kiffa receives a bookbag from Chargé d’Affaires Dennis Hankins.  The bookbags were funded by the Department of Defense.

It is a great pleasure for me to be with you today on this occasion of the launching of a campaign to distribute academic materials to primary and high school students in Kiffa. This major campaign initiated by our embassy and which will occur throughout Mauritania was begun in September 2006 on the occasion of International Literacy...(more)

Dennis Hankins, Chargé d'Affaires of the Embassy of the United States in Mauritania presided today in Kiffa at a ceremony to distribute 1000 bookbags and school supplies to students of the primary school of El Varough and the high school of Kiffa. In addition, books in Arabic...(more)

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