Category: GAP Program
In true Fisher networking fashion, we landed a lunch meeting with a local water solutions manager - a tentative third degree connection to our group. Our first business meeting on Tanzanian soil went well, despite the distant network link and unavoidable jet lag. Vincent runs a drilling and construction company in Arusha, a former division of a company focused on bore holes for water wells.
Hello friends, family, and world at large,
After a long and exhausting 18-hour flight from the United States, the OSU/OneHealth team arrived in Addis Ababa, the capital of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. We had to board a prop plane in order to travel to Gondar, the first city where we would be starting our project.
This week's sightseeing experience was one for the books! We traveled all around smoggy Shanghai as we took a bus under the Huangpu River and returned back via boat ride. A lot of noodles were consumed, and we all had an opportunity to experience different perspectives of the city...
Week One in Kenya is on the books and has it ever been a whirlwind! It feels as though we have been all over this country in just this first week- from twelve hours north of Nairobi to six hours west to a brief border cross into Tanzania. We have seen the relatively modern urban setting of Kenya’s central capital city Nairobi, the primitive remote tribal living in the outskirts of Marsabit in the far north, and the unbridled wilderness of Masai Mara in the west.