tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3109500075480617181.post7510808823034949737..comments2023-05-10T06:03:19.483-07:00Comments on A Different Kind of Life: Health Promoter Graduation 2012Chelseahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02295469675876237997noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3109500075480617181.post-87256112851408455702013-01-30T16:05:07.005-08:002013-01-30T16:05:07.005-08:00Hey Britta! Thanks for the message! I'd love t...Hey Britta! Thanks for the message! I'd love to hear more about this. What's your email? We have a Food Security and Agriculture program that you may be able to work with. These volunteers will be here for about nine more months and they know much more about groups that work in agriculture than I do! I can try to hook you guys up!Chelseahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02295469675876237997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3109500075480617181.post-88815470932409514532013-01-30T15:10:30.728-08:002013-01-30T15:10:30.728-08:00Dear PCV,
My name is Britta Hansen and I work for...Dear PCV, <br />My name is Britta Hansen and I work for a USAID horticulture program at the University of California Davis. http://hortcrsp.ucdavis.edu/ I am also an RPCV Bolivia and Liberia, I found your lovely blog and that is why I am contacting you. My organization HortCRSP is in the process of searching for small organizations who are working to improve fruit and vegetable production in Liberia. Our program then funds time and travel for a graduate student in agronomy or horticulture to work with the organization over the course of a year to solve a specific issues they are having in production, marketing, nutrition etc. I am attaching some additional information as well as a link to our website. Basically I know that PCVs are often the best source of information on the ground and I would love it if you would be able to distribute some of this information to an organization that you might know of or work with. We always get a strong response from organizations in East Africa but being so connected to Liberia I know exactly some of the struggles people have in growing fruits and vegetables for sale and consumption. I would be happy to answer any questions that you have via email, skype or phone. <br /><br />Engaging U.S. graduate students in international development<br />The Trellis Fund provides small-scale, in-country development organizations access to U.S. graduate student expertise, providing benefit to both the student and the in-country institutions. With a focus on impact and expansion of locally proven ideas, the Trellis Fund matches the organizations with students and provides modest funds to support the organization’s farmer outreach program. <br />Proposals and applications<br />For organizations: Organizations in 18 developing countries are invited to identify a horticultural problem facing local farmers and the type of expertise they seek in a U.S. graduate student. The organization will submit a project proposal with their intended objectives, activities, gender program and a $2,000 budget by March 4, 2013 for consideration. Organizations that have not already been funded by Trellis will receive priority. <br />Brittahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12077305062574278526noreply@blogger.com