Hello, CALS,
Weather everywhere. I hope you are weathering it well wherever you are. My week at our campus in Uganda was very pleasant, weather-wise. While only a few degrees off the equator, its elevation is such that it was far cooler than you’ve been enduring in Ames.
The activity there is simply awe-inspiring. Our students, together with students from Makerere University, are engaged in project work and service learning. Their service to rural communities and schools is extraordinary. The continuing opportunity for engagement with this facility and program in every department is very real. You are truly a part of a globally engaged college - making a difference, from the farms of Iowa, to the policy arena of UNFAO in Rome (where our students just finished), to the farms of East Africa.
All the best as we reach the solar summer. - Dan
Scenes from CALS
Below I am pictured with several ISU-Uganda Program staff at the Mprigiti tree (Erythrina Abbisinica), for which the CALS center is named.
I'm also shown with Charles Kigoma, facilities manager, Mpirigiti Rural Training Center, Kamuli, Uganda. The plaque on the wall commemorates the CALS support to the Center for Sustainable Rural Livelihoods Uganda program, specifically to the Amagezi (“knowledge” in the Lusoga language) Library.
