MIDDLEBURY — It’s 7,025 miles from Middlebury to Burundi in East Africa. And one could argue the economic gulf between the two areas is even wider still. Well, two local educators and a Charlotte-based business recently made an effort to bridge that gap in at least a small way, through a scholastic competition that helped participating Patricia A. Hannaford Career Center students learn about the geography, culture and natural resources of Burundi, and financial hardships that its citizens endure on a daily … (read more)
