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THURSDAY 10.19.2017 No. 43 Vol 213
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Students reflect on experiences from miles away
COURTESY OF DAVID ACKER Iowa State students work together at the site to transport a tree. The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences has sent students and faculty to the Kamuli District in Uganda for 13 years. While in Uganda, ISU students aid the Center of Sustainable Rural Livelihoods by completing projects and teaching the community about agriculture.
BY ANNELISE.WELLS @iowastatedaily.com The Kamuli District in Uganda is 7,989 miles away from Ames.
For the past 13 years, ISU faculty and students have traveled those miles to build and aid the Center for Sustainable Rural Livelihoods, (CSRL). The center opened in 2004 when the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences was challenged to find a place to help work on food security problems and poverty. “We chose Uganda as a place that was really both in great need but also had great potential,” said David Acker, associate dean of the College of Agriculture, global resources systems. A commitment of $10 million was given by Gerald and Karen Kolschowsky to continue Iowa
State’s involvement in Uganda on a large scale. Both were already supporters of the Sustainable Rural Livelihoods (SRL) program. Acker said the scope of this project is not to just fix problems on a short-term scale, but to help the local people build up to their capacity. From the beginning, sustainability was a key issue they wanted to address. After some discussion in 2005, students first came to the center in the summer of 2006. Ever since, the College of Agriculture has been taking groups of student service learners and interns during the summer to the Kamuli District for a two month program. In Uganda, the small groups of 12 to 13 students spend their days teaching kids at primary schools, completing special projects and informing the
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“We chose Uganda as a place that was really both in great need but also had great potential.” -David Acker
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