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“Being a part of Teach With Africa has created this amazing legacy,” Mandy’s mom says. “I’m simply doing what Mandy would have wanted.”
Mandy Edwards was poised to be great teacher until, at the age of 17, tragedy struck. Mandy’s legacy lives on, with the help of her mother, making it possible for American educators to work on the continent she loved. Teaching in Africa is something Mandy would have done, says her mother Rebecca Renaud. She was positive she would volunteer to teach there and talked about it often, even joking she would need to marry a wealthy man so she could continue to do it. Mandy, always a diligent student, had already been accepted into the University of Maine Farmington’s teaching program. “Mandy wanted to become a teacher because she wanted to make a difference,” says her mother Rebecca Renaud. To honor her daughter’s memory, Rebecca set up a scholarship fund
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