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Trip to Mali and Burkina Faso [2011年10月31日(Mon)]
Trip to Mali and Burkina Faso


I am leaving for Mali and Burkina Faso today.

It has been 25 years since we started the agricultural training program in Ghana and Sudan in 1986 triggered by the devastating famine in Ethiopia brought about by draught. We believed that the basic solution lie in the principle of “not giving fish but teaching how to fish” and with repeated trial and error we have come to be recognized as the only successful agricultural aid project in Africa today. We have come to a long way and now have entered a new stage with financial cooperation with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that has lead to attract attention of the whole world.

On this trip, I will be giving a keynote address at the 25th anniversary commemorative international conference. I am also looking forward to seeing the happy faces of the farmers on my visits to the field. I will also be having a meeting with President Touré of Mali and visiting the leprosy hospital to give encouragement to those in suffering

In Burkina Faso, I will hold a meeting with President Compaoré. I will also visit the leprosy hospital and attend the donation ceremony of our collection of “100 Books on Contemporary Japan” to the Polytechnic University of Bobo-Dioulasso.

I am scheduled to return on November 9th.
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