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Meet the 2023 Tarr Fellows
We are pleased to announce this year’s Tarr Fellows: Lidia Naibaho from Indonesia, Mambud Samai from Sierra Leone, Daneth Him from Cambodia, and Patrick Kullie from Liberia
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Lidia Naibaho is a 2011 ARI Graduate.
Lidia’s project is based in North Sumatra, Indonesia and focuses on promoting youth engagement in sustainable agriculture. She is working with youth aged 16-25 to increase their knowledge and understanding of sustainable agriculture concepts and opportunities. She has launched a youth campaign and engaged high schoolers and churches in four villages. She is also providing a two-day training session for young people on sustainable agriculture practices. Through this project, Lidia hopes to increase youth knowledge and participation in sustainable agriculture activities. Read her most recent Project Report here.
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Daneth Him is a 2010 ARI Graduate.
Daneth’s project is based in Cambodia and is called the Women’s Livelihood Project. For Daneth’s project, she works with a group of women farmers to help organize a Savings group and creates income-generating activities. This is a community-led group that receives specialized training on topics such as teamwork, financial management, home gardening, and chicken raising. Daneth hopes to increase the number of women participating in the Savings group and to improve their livelihoods through training and income-generating activities. Read her most recent Project Report here.
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Mambud Samai is a 2018 ARI Graduate.Mambud’s project is based in Sierra Leone and it focuses on poultry farming and provides poultry management training for farmers who are amputees. The “Farming on Crutches” project creates income-generating opportunities through the increased production of meat and eggs and the production of Bokashi Fertilizer. Over the course of the 12 month initiative, this project will train 60 farmers on sustainable agriculture, establish poultry farming with a 150-bird demonstration farm and amplify impact by learning from and sharing success stories from their program. Mambud’s goal is for Farming on Crutches to become the leading organic fertilizer agent for small farmers in Sierra Leone by the end of 2024. Read his most recent Project Report here.
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Patrick Kullie is a 2019 ARI Graduate.Patrick’s project is based in Liberia and focuses on training rural community members to implement sustainable agricultural practices. Through this project, Patrick aims to build a mini-solar cassava processing plant and provide training in cassava and yam production as well as marketing skills that will lead to household economic sustainability. Activities include classroom and practical training in the fields on agricultural and community development practices. Patricks’ goal is to increase cassava production by 40% over the course of 12 months, leading to increased household income for participating farmers. Read his most recent Project Report here.
