Volunteer Posts
Shaking hands with President Jimmy Carter
May 11, 2015
Aquaculture specialist Joe Sullivan returned from his Farmer-to-Farmer volunteer assignment in Senegal last week. On the plane trip back, Dr. Sullivan met President Jimmy Carter and told him about his F2F assignment, as he describes below: “I met President Jimmy Carter on the plane on my JFK to Atlanta leg coming home from a volunteer Farmer-to-Farmer assignment […]
International Women’s Day
May 6, 2015
In honor of International Women’s Day (March 8), check out some photos of women in action with the Farmer-to-Farmer program in Asia and West Africa! Winrock volunteers have directly assisted over 139,00 women in 56 countries. And 1125 of these volunteers were women themselves. We are proud of this legacy of supporting women in need around the […]
April volunteer of the month
April 30, 2015
For this month’s Volunteer of the Month, we honor Dr. Mathew Baker (pictured above center), Professor at the Department of Agricultural Education and Communications at Texas Tech University. Dr. Baker is recognized in particular as an outstanding agriculture education and training (AET) volunteer, having provided important assistance to the formal AET sector in Nigeria. In June […]
Good times with good people in Nigeria
April 24, 2015
Darla Embry, Program Associate/Recruiter for the Farmer-to-Farmer (F2F) for Agriculture Education and Training Program, just returned from a trip to visit our F2F offices in Nigeria and Senegal and fondly shares some favorite memories from the trip: April 2015 brought me back to Abuja, Nigeria. What a great staff in the Farmer-to-Farmer office. Gelsey Bennett is […]
Learning by doing in Nepal
April 22, 2015
Volunteer Jeremy Elliot-Engel recently completed a youth entrepreneurship assignment with Winrock’s F2F program in Nepal. His blog post, below, offers candid insights from his trip: Entrepreneurship is not only something you learn, but something you must do. Namaste from Nepal. If Nepal is one thing, it is a country of smiles, optimism and positivity. This […]
National Volunteer Week: What’s your story?
April 17, 2015
Points of Light, which spearheads National Volunteer Week, asks, “What’s your story?”… … so we asked our Volunteer Technical Assistance (VTA) team this very question. The VTA team is responsible for recruiting qualified volunteers and implementing Winrock’s volunteer programs around the world. What we confirmed was that volunteerism is a value and a focus in the team’s professional […]
National Volunteer Week: recognizing our 2014 volunteers
April 14, 2015
It’s National Volunteer Week! –a week about inspiring, recognizing, and encouraging people to seek out imaginative ways to engage in the community and make a difference. Winrock is always happy to recognize our volunteers! This month, we are awarding 73 volunteers with the 2014 Presidential Service Award: Six volunteers achieved the gold award, for over 500 hours of service; […]
People-to-people exchanges in Cuba
April 13, 2015
President Obama and Cuba’s Raul Castro held an historic meeting this past weekend in Panama, marking the first time that the leaders of these two countries have met in person in over five decades. Winrock is also glad to have recently completed our first face-to-face meetings with Cubans, just last month. DeAnn McGrew, Winrock’s Director […]
The Price of a Dream
April 6, 2015
Today’s blog post is from BoDavid Williford (pictured above, center), who recently completed a Farmer-to-Farmer volunteer assignment in Bangladesh: “As my time in Bangladesh comes to an end, I am left with a new phrase that I don’t plan to leave in Dhaka. After numerous conversations with students at the International University of Business Agriculture […]
March Volunteer of The Month
March 31, 2015
For this month’s Volunteer of the Month, we honor Kirk Astroth (above center), Assistant Dean and Director of Arizona 4-H Development at the University of Arizona. A couple of us first met Kirk in January 2014. We were instantly struck by his warmth and passion for youth development. After spending just an hour with Kirk, […]