{"id":1498,"date":"2006-09-22T10:13:53","date_gmt":"2006-09-22T10:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/news\/2006\/09\/22\/garry-prime-65-to-speak-on-challenges-of-the-third-world\/"},"modified":"2013-02-01T19:48:04","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T19:48:04","slug":"garry-prime-65-to-speak-on-challenges-of-the-third-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/news\/2006\/09\/22\/garry-prime-65-to-speak-on-challenges-of-the-third-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Garry Prime &#8217;65 to Speak on Challenges of the Third World"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Jersey City &#8212; Garry Prime &rsquo;65 will discuss the challenges of the Third World and his experiences as a Peace Corps volunteer in the African nation of Malawi as part of the Catholic and Jesuit Identity Lecture Series at Saint Peter&rsquo;s College on Monday, October 2 at noon in McIntyre Hall.&nbsp;&nbsp;The lecture is free and open to the general public. <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Prime, who is the President and Chief Executive officer of Evercel Inc., served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Malawi in the 1960s. His two and one-half year tour marked the beginning of a 35-year relationship spanning two continents between Prime and the people of Malawi.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<table cellspacing=\"10\" cellpadding=\"1\" width=\"200\" align=\"right\" summary=\"\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"230\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" align=\"left\" src=\"\/Images\/Public Relations\/MalawiTailors.jpg\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>The Malawi Children&#8217;s Village built a sewing center to help train tailors in the local villages.&nbsp; The Malawi Children&#8217;s Village project cares for approximately 3,000 orphans, providing services such as food, medical care, education, shelter, clothing and vocational training.<\/strong>&nbsp; <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div>In 1997, Prime and his former Peace Corps colleagues started the Malawi Children&rsquo;s Village.&nbsp;The organization cares for approximately 3,000 orphans and provides food, clothing, shelter, medical care and education.&nbsp;Prime and his colleagues recently started another group called Orphan Support Africa, aiming to replicate their success in Malawi in other African nations such as Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Zambia.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Prime&rsquo;s lecture is the second in the fall term of the Catholic and Jesuit Identity Lecture Series.&nbsp;Dr. William Evans of the College&rsquo;s Philosophy Department spoke earlier this month on the vocation of the teacher in the Ignatian tradition.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Saint Peter&rsquo;s College is the Jesuit College of New Jersey.&nbsp; Founded in 1872, Saint Peter&rsquo;s has an enrollment of approximately 3,000 students in undergraduate and graduate programs.&nbsp; The main campus is located in Jersey City.&nbsp; The College has a branch campus for adults in Englewood Cliffs, NJ and also offers courses at various corporate sites at the Jersey City waterfront and in South Amboy, NJ.<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span>###<\/span><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jersey City &#8212; Garry Prime &rsquo;65 will discuss the challenges of the Third World and his experiences as a Peace Corps volunteer in the African nation of Malawi as part of the Catholic and Jesuit Identity Lecture Series at Saint Peter&rsquo;s College on Monday, October 2 at noon in McIntyre Hall.&nbsp;&nbsp;The lecture is free and [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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