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AFTER 8 YEARS IN AFRICA

Third World
still beckons
Garth Edge

Just back after eight years
as a transport and energy
adviser to three East African
countries, former North
Vancouver resident Garth
Edge admits that he still has
uchy feet.

Presently busy launching
his own company and re-
establishing his roots in
B.C., he has already been
offered similar overseas
asSignments in two
developing nations and
confesses to having been
half tempted.

An 1968 M.A. tn
economics from Simon
Fraser University after
working for 13> years with
Chevron Ou in Vancouver,
Garth spent four years as
Coordinator of Economics
and Geography at Capilano
College, as well as being its
director of community
services on the North Shore.

In 1972 he was given a two
year leave of absence to be
sent by the Canadian Inter-
national Development
Agency as transport adviser
to the three East Afncan
Community countries” of
Kenya, Tanzania, and
Uganda.

However, in 1974 Kenya
asked for his services ex-
clusively. He was employed
by the World Bank and
seconded to the Kenya
government as head _ of
planning for transport and
energy. In one of Africa's
most stable multi-racial
states he has been involved
in road, rail, marine, and air
transport, in on matters, and
in electncity generation and
distn bution

“It has been a tremen-
dously invigorating job” he
says, “trying to get a poor
country moving in a difficult
world economic chmate ”

The Kenyans wanted him
lo glayp ger

s noe etfrning to BC he
has incorporated his | own
consulting company. Garth
Fdpge International Inc .
offemng consullancy services
in (transport and energy in
BC Alberta and abroad

Only (wo days after he got
back a cable arrmved from
the United Nations in New
York asking af he would
accept the yob of sorting out

the {transport mess in
U panda
A week later came

another UN telegram from
Gseneva inquiring whether
he was avatlable for a six
moath yob in’ Figh reorgans
ang the inter island ferry
and cargo shipping system

“These are being con
sudered " ays Garth “but my
first objective ots te gel

settled again in’ B ¢
where incidentally his son

David ais with the Hyatt
Regen y Hotel oan Van
couver while his daughter
Mac hetle works foot the
Pimpress Hotebin Vac tora

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