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I work to empower men and women from the Cardenas area, where there is high unemployment, by
giving training in farming. I wish to increase mytechnical and practical skills, so as to be better able
to teach others how to sustain themselves. On myreturn to Cuba, I shall initiate a course in practicaland theoretical organic farming at my sending body,the Christian Center for Reflection and Dialogue.

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Field Worker

In community, people live and depend on each otherso that there is room for learning and development. I
appreciate the diversity of the ARI community. At
ARI, I want to sharpen my experience in sustainableagriculture, learn a holistic approach to humandevelopment, and gain leadership skills.

Executive Director

Field Coordinator

I work in the Blantyre area of Malawi as a field coordinator with the Kachere Progressive Women'sGroup. We work tirelessly for women's empowerment and to promote profitable agribusiness. I wantto create a food-sufficient community at home,then expand outward, targeting grassroots leadersof Malawi.

We train the women we work with in poultry andcattle-raising, gardening, handicrafts and fishculture - skills which help to generate income, support education for poor children and alleviate poverty. I want to expand my knowledge of agriculture
and share this with trainees. No people can be developed in Bangladesh if the socio-economic position of
the rural poor is not improved.

The Asian Rural Institute (ARI ) has been dedicated since 1973 to training grassroots rural leaders,
who live and work in their communities in countries located primarily in Asia, Africa and the Pacific.
Located in Tochigi, Japan, ARI trains rural community leaders regardless of nationality, race, religious beliefs, gender or age.
The aim of the training is to facilitate the self-development of rural people, in order to build a more just and peaceful society.
The training is practically-oriented. Participants learn through classroom lectures, discussions, and study tours and thenput this learning into practice by managing their own fields and rice paddies, raising livestock, heading committees and organizing events.
The ARI community is almost completely self-sufficient, with more than 90 percent of the food we consume coming from our own campus.
ARI does not have an independent source of funds. We rely on the support of individuals, churches andfunding organizations to operate the training program. Furthermore, since ARI actively seeks out people fromthe most marginalized areas of the world, who have few resources to support themselves for this training,
we help them to connect with potential supporters for scholarship assistance.
ARI's training program is made possible by supporters' generous contributions.

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to watch movies. Through my mother I was influenced to think often about life and death, andwatching films with my father exposed me tosurprising ideas and taught me that each person
thinks differently. And now, at ARI, I have been connected with agriculture.

Many communities have natural resources, butforeign companies are moving in and we fear for the
future of these communities. I work to empower
farmers with natural agricultural techniques. After
experiencing "learning by doing" at ARI, I hope I will
be better able to train farmers to make use oforganic farming.

My remote rural community lacks healthcare accessand training opportunities. While serving my community as a pastor, I also provide training in farming
techniques, tree seedling raising and construct solar
cookers and mud stoves for families. At ARI I hopeto acquire skills to counsel youth on positive healthstrategies and teach new farming skills to subsistence farmers.

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Farmers should be the masters of food, but so often
they are ignored. This is especially true for women.
I work to empower farmers to share their big dreams
and will use my ARI training about food security tolearn how to better plan and implement activities
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Following my belief in the need for agrarian reformin Indonesia, I work with farmers to maintain theirintegrity as they fight for land ownership rights
against large plantations. After learning more about
cooperatives and organic farming here, I will workwith my sending body and community to develop a
training center that will support and strengthen
farmers, both women and men.

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I grew up in a farming family, and presently work as
a secretary at Myanmar Baptist Churches Union. I
want to move my community of Kayin people, in Dee
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to organic agricultural development, focusing on
farming, livestock, and forestry. I hope to returnfrom ARI to my community with new skills to leadand teach sustainable rural development.

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I grew up involved with rural work, and am a graduate and teaching staff of Kachine TheologicalCollege in the Northern Shan State of Myanmar. At
the college's Agricultural Farm, I educate student
farmers in organic practices and sustainable agriculture. I plan to use my experiences at ARI to improve
what I teach to students and community farmers.

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I am a secretary and farmer from Chin State, Myanmar. For several years I have been volunteering forvarious local projects with Hualngo Land Development Organization, my sending body. I plan toaddress transportation issues and implement new
agricultural models in my community upon return to
Myanmar. At ARI I want to learn about sustainable
livestock raising and rice cultivation, especially withmachinery.

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I am from Moneywa, Myanmar, where I maintain afamily agribusiness. I also serve as a logistic volunteer with the Kalyana Mitta Foundation, acommunity-development and peace-building initiative that works with youth. My intention is to help
create and implement a young farmers program withmy sending body upon return from ARI. I have worked
to resolve environmental issues in Moneywa, andwant to promote more appropriate technology,
particularly organic options.

I work as an agriculture teacher at the Don Bosco
Rural Training Center in Tetere, a boarding schoolthat provides alternative space for youth who
cannot afford a formal education. I want to expand
my knowledge at ARI so I may become a better
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I have been working with tsunami-displaced farmers
to develop their livelihood. My sending body, Humanand Environment Links Progressive Organization(HELP-O), is an NGO that seeks to balance development and environmental integrity, and I work toincrease participation in Help-O. I wish to learn
about leadership development, community empowerment and agriculture, so I can improve my effectiveness as a field officer.

I train rural youth to be leaders through my sending
body, Sewalanka Foundation, which works with ruralcommunities to democratically identify and address
their own development needs. I am also working
with others to establish an inter-religious clergy
network devoted to democracy and non-violent
social change. At ARI I hope to learn about leadership, methods of community development, and thespirit of organic agriculture.

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Project Officer

As coordinator of of the Human Development Foundation's Galewela Project, I work with others to
improve local communities on many levels. The
Galewela Project specifically works to increase theincome level of poor farming families. At ARI I want
to develop my skills in agriculture and leadership,
and to learn solutions that will replace chemicalfertilizers.

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Farmer Facilitator

Through my work with TITAN, an NPO that empowers farmers by providing training for healthy vegetable production, I train both local and immigrant
farmers. After ARI, I will resume work with TITAN
and share my new ARI experience of organic farming.

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I work with farmer groups from three tribes in anarea near the border with Indonesia, providing seeds
and seedlings, and also helping them to sell theirproduce. I want to deepen my knowledge of organic
agriculture and animal husbandry, so that I can demonstrate new organic farming techniques and theiroutcomes to other farmers.

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I believe that God gives us good things throughnature. I learnt gardening as a schoolgirl in East
Timor by working with my father in the fields andgrowing vegetables. Now, as a Catholic nun, I hopeto learn new skills which I can demonstrate to myconvent workers, so that in their vegetable garden
they will now be able to use different techniques.

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Recognizing that many farmers lack even basic
training in Liberia, my work is to provide opportunities for them to improve their livelihood throughnew skill acquistion. At ARI I hope to expand myknowledge, so I can implement more substantialtraining with the goal of forming a farming cooperative one day.

My life experiences have revealed that the soil is abank. It has provided my family and many otherswith the resources for life. My community is still
struggling to overcome the effects of war, and I
participate in this struggle by teaching agriculture.
After ARI I hope we will be renewed by sharing ourknowledge and work together.

During the civil war, people would assist one anotherthrough Church Aide because of farms and hunger. I
wish to help that reality return, through mobilizing
rural people, especially the women of Telbomai, tomeet their own needs. After ARI I will continue mywork of peace building and organic farming training,with new skills to better mobilize the people I serve.

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My goal as a field worker is to train young men andwomen to stay in their communities and engage inbeekeeping, environmental protection andcrop/livestock production for sustainable careers inagriculture. ARI can help me develop the skills to
encourage and enable them to do so.

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By bringing in experts and working directly with pig
farmers of my region, I've helped farmers toincrease production, combat animal disease andstrengthen their marketing strategies. At ARI I
wish to study sustainable agriculture, pork production, rural economic development and effective
methods to transfer this know-how to Cameroonian
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Priest, Farm Manager

I want to encourage young people in the interior ofnorthern Goa to take a renewed interest in farming
as a livelihood. At ARI I wish to improve my own
leadership skills and to learn about Pigs, cow, andfarming. After returning to India, I plan to implement
organic farming techniques on my farm and sharethese with others.

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I spent the past year at ARI as a participant learning
about food self sustainability though organic farming. This year as a Training Assistant I will focus onenergy self sufficiency and work hard at learning
how to use organic farming for the purpose of creating an efficient energy system. My goal is to then use
it along with the participants and find practicalways to use the created energy.
(2013 Graduate)

Through an extracurricular club in University I visited
developing countries and experienced how different they
are from Japan. I became deeply interested in the problemsof poverty and food sovereignty and deciding I wanted towork in international relations enrolled as a student at ARI.
Through the agricultural training of last years nine monthtraining and this year's training as a graduate intern, I want
to become a person who can use international relations tocreate rich harmony.
(2013 Graduate)

A Japanese graduate of ARI is eligible to apply to
be a Graduate Intern (GI). The internship is twelve
months long, starting in April immediately after
graduation. The intern focuses on one section of
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The GI also takes part in all other aspects of ARI
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Health Coordinator/ Rural
Community Development Coordinator

The people I serve have health care and sustainableagriculture needs. I coordinate health care activities, provide health education and also provide livestock guidance for farmers. As ARI's Training Assistant, I will assist in meal service and farming support, while reinforcing the servant leadership skills I
honed here as a training program participant.

The 2014 participants receive scholarships
from the following organizations:

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American School in Japan Swimming Club*,
Asian Rural Welfare Association, Evangelical Lutheran
Church in Miwa
America,
Shigeyoshi
Harstra Foundation* (Netherlands), Igarashi Fund,Japan Students Services Association (JASSO),
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Association, Kubota Foundation,
National Council of Churches in Japan, Niikura Kai Foundation,
Osaka Community Foundation, Rotary Club Yoneyama Foundation,
Salesians of Don Bosco, The Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus,
Society of St Columban Region of Japan,
Tokyo American Club Women's Group,
The United Methodist Church - General Board of Global Ministries,
Tokyo Peace Church Kachin Language Group,
United Church of Canada, The United Methodist Committee on Relief,
Wesley Foundation (Japan), World Council of Churches

Training Assistant
ARI Graduates who have worked in theircountries for five or more years may apply to bea TA (Training Assistant). Those applicants who
have achieved good results in their communitites
are invited to come to ARI to assist in the
training of the participants.

*Application pending as of May 1, 2014

(2006 Graduate)

The Graduates of ARI

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Graduates of the South East Asia Course (1960-1972)
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Asian Rural Institute, Rural Leaders Training Center (from 1973 on)・Rural Leaders Training Course １，
０８０ Graduates, ５４ countries
・Advanced Training Course ７７ Graduates

That We May Live Together

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