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So many things have gone into this moment that I know is just one plane ride away.

This week, LaNese Mahan, a 2017 MIAP-Noble Fellow, visited the Dokolo and Amolatar districts in Uganda to gather information on each woman participating in the Women’s Empowerment Program.

LaNese Mahan travels to Calo Me Lare to help the students mulch their garden and plant vetiver grass roots so they can grow their own mulch for the future.

LaNese Mahan, a 2017 MIAP-Noble Fellow, enjoys the beauty of Uganda’s wildlife and natural resources before officially saying goodbye to the friends she made while assisting with agricultural develop projects in the country.  

LaNese Mahan, a 2017 MIAP-Noble Fellow, learns more about her newfound friends in Uganda while planting watermelon and listening to old wives’ tales.

Alexa Major visits a commercial farm with Restoration Gateway students, conducts interviews with Ugandan women in mud huts and beneath trees, and gets lost.

Instead of donating seed for the women to plant, Field of Hope is looking into donating a start-up grant into the women's cooperative account to begin the lending processes.

This week we visited the Barlonyo school garden and Calo Me Lare to work on the compost system.

For the most part, harvesting both groundnuts and soybeans consisted of walking row to row pulling up plants.