This week, dedicated members of the Oxfam Action Corps team are representing Oxfam America at the 2013 World Food Prize & Borlaug Dialogue. Read more from Elizabeth Norman, co-organizer of our team in NYC.
Originally posted at http://www.oxfamactioncorpsnyc.org/2013/10/no-sleep-til-des-moines-from-brooklyn.html
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It’s 6:30 AM at La Guardia Airport; still dark outside. I am excited to be on the way to Des Moines to join other Oxfam volunteers and staff at the World Food Prize’s 2013 Borlaug Dialogue. Brittany Wilson and I are traveling from Brooklyn to Des Moines to represent the Oxfam Action Corps NYC as we join volunteers and staff from San Francisco, Boston, and of course, Iowa.
Oxfam’s presence at the World Food Prize will involve tabling and outreach, hosting three farmers visiting from Tanzania and Uganda, hosting a Grow Method luncheon, attending official events (highlights this year will include Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of Great Britain; Ólafur Ragnar Grímmson, President of Iceland; and Cardinal Peter K.A. Turkson, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace), as well as attending interesting side events. (Too many to choose from!)
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Camp Green in Kampala, Uganda |
I am excited about hearing Frances Moore Lappé andOxfam America President Ray Offenheiser speak, meeting and hearing from farmers from Tanzania (Kijoolu Kaliya who has worked for land rights for Maasai women and men in Ngorongoro District) and Uganda (Harriet Nakabaale and Jjumba Frank Luyinda, urban farmers from Camp Green in Kampala) at Oxfam-sponsored events, tasting SRI rice at Oxfam's luncheonand visiting a farm connected with Marshalltown Community College on Friday.
Please stay tuned to this blog and watch for live updates on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/OxfamActionCorpsNYC) and Twitter (www.twitter.com/OxfamActionNYC).
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