7BIT Dear Colleague, I enjoyed your website and wanted to ask your help in getting this notice out to potentially interested plant scientists. The following announcement summarizes our program. I would appreciate your suggestions on how we can publicize our activities and our volunteer needs. We are particularly interested in reaching retired and semi-retired people who tend to have more time for volunteer activities.
Volunteers are preferred who have a PhD with significant field experience.
They also need to be in excellent health, able to travel extensively under rugged rural conditions. While the above assignments are priority for us, the project will be on-going in Ethiopia and in Eritrea, and we are interested in building up our data bank of potential volunteers. Over the next 5 years, we will need experts in sustainable land management, cooperative and agribusiness development, watershed and rangeland management, dryland forestry, irrigation technology and water catchment systems. Scopes of work, and expected qualifications, will be developed for these specialty areas as they are identified by in-country personnel. The FtF Program has been a winner of the Presidential Hunger Award, and has a widespread reputation among members of Capitol Hill, previous volunteers, and projects who have received assistance as being a highly efficient and cost effective form of foreign assistance.