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Lander University honors Mufuka Foundation!

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Letter from America In show casing its contribution to international education and development, South Carolina’s Lander University invited retired US Ambassador to Zimbabwe in honor of the Mufuka Foundation. Ambassador Bruce Wharton gave several lectures to Lander students, faculty and public. Ms. Lois Mufuka Martin, a vice president at Pittsburgh’s Pennsylvania’s Search and Consulting Services shared the platform with Wharton. She is Dr. Ken Mufuka’s daughter and coordinator of the Mufuka Foundation in the US. Wharton, whose grandparents served as Presbyterian medical missionaries in the Congo, has inherited a passion for the proper use of foreign aid and the role of education. In  honoring the Mufuka Family and the role it played in bringing Zimbabweans to study at Lander University over a period stretching way back to 1976, Wharton said that Lander should regard itself as show casing the best practices in global education. In planning, the beneficiaries of such a