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For a year and a half, Bara Kassambara kept his mouth shut.
Every day, all of his coworkers paused for prayer time. There were frequent Bible studies, and constant talk about Jesus. Kassambara attended the required events, but otherwise quietly focused on his work: bringing clean water to rural Mali.
"I think many people at World Vision just believed that I was a Christian," said Kassambara, a Muslim in a predominantly Islamic country.
Fluent in English and with years of development work on his resume, World Vision hired Kassambara to work on the West Africa Water Initiative–a project to provide safe drinking water to stave off water-borne diseases that run rampant in the region.
It was a rare hire for World Vision, Kassambara said; he only got the job because it was a temporary position.