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Thursday, August 07, 2008 --- 30 days ago http://www.wickedlocal.com/needham/news/x1153215100/From-Needhams-Broadmeadow-Sc
| When John Grabowski turns 50 this year, the occasion will be more momentous than a typical birthday. When that day comes, Grabowski, the country office director of Mozambique for the international charity organization Save the Children, will have spent 25 years of his life in the United States and the other 25 in Africa. “The real drawback of this profession is that you do not have that much direct contact with family,” he said. “[My wife and I] definitely miss that close contact with parents, brothers, sisters, nieces and nephews, but we don’t look back on our 25 years with that much regret. The line of work I’m in is very gratifying.” Save the Children, or Save for short, aims to improve the lives of children in underdeveloped countries through education and health care. Long before it was Grabowski’s job to preach the importance of early education to families and build preschools in a developing African nation, he sat in the classrooms of Needham’s public schools. “Back when I was in Needham, I have vague memories of nursery school and kindergarten. I was at Broadmeadow School. Is that still there?” said Grabowski, a 1976 graduate of Needham High School. “That’s where I went to kindergarten. Certainly, I don’t think I can claim that that made all the difference in my life, the chance to go to preschool or kindergarten, but I think I can rightfully say it had an impact on who I was and who I became.” Unlike some of the 27 othe ... |
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