The Rural Development College, Holte, Denmark

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This College—Højskole for Udviklingslandene—opened in August 1964 with 22 students from six countries of the eastern half of Africa, who had come for a four-month course. Behind this lies a story of years of effort by many people, principally Danes, and more especially those within the folk high- school movement, who were persuaded and inspired by the zeal of the indefatigable Dr Peter Manniche, who conceived the original idea. This was to aid the developing nations by inviting some of their citizens to come and study how Denmark itself had in the past developed from poverty to affluence by the efforts of its own people; and to provide a college for this purpose, organised along the lines of a folk high-school community.