The Notre Dame Initiative for Global Development (NDIGD) recently completed a midterm evaluation of the Food For Education project in Honduras. Food For Education was implemented by Catholic Relief Services, in conjunction with local Honduran organizations, to improve literacy in school-aged children.
The following entry comes from 2015 USAID | Notre Dame Global Development Fellow, Annette Ruth. In her own words, she describes her experience of working with T.cruzi motility in Bogota, Colombia.
I am conducting my research in the Akle and Gonzalez labs here at UniAndes. Since my arrival, I hit the ground running with developing my protocol and put in nearly 60 hours of lab time during my first 5 days. What a precedent to uphold, but that is how I prefer to work – passionately. I cannot disclose the specifics of my research, for confidentiality reasons, but I can tell you that I’m working to establish zebrafish (Danio rerio) as a new model organism for the in vivo (live) study of T. cruzi motility, migration, and tissue colonization...
And, they’re off!
As thousands of students say goodbye to the spring semester here on campus, several of our USAID | Notre Dame Global Development Fellows have packed their bags and are arriving in their host countries for their fellowships.
So far, three of our fellows have begun their work: Annette Ruth, researching T. cruzi motility in Bogota, Colombia, Craig Iffland, researching humanitarian law in Johannesburg, South Africa, and Cecilia Lero, working on the Varieties of Democracy project in Sao Paulo, Brazil...
The Notre Dame Initiative for Global Development (NDIGD) hosted a series of competitive activities stationed all across campus on Notre Dame Day in order to raise awareness among members of the community about the work NDIGD does in developing countries around the globe.