MARSHAL PAPWORTH TRUST
Marshal Papworth 2007/8
This year the Marshal Papworth Trust is helping to fund eight more students from the developing world, to study at English Universities and return home to work for the improvement of agriculture in their home country, for the benefit of their fellow countryfolk.
This year’s students are:
Francis Lesilau – worked with Kenya Wildlife Service to ensure effective conservation, protection and management of Wildlife resources and habitat in Kenya. His course on Sustainable Management of Natural Resources at Leicester University, will provide him with the practical and theoretical knowledge to identify and analyse the problems facing natural resources and provide solutions for is country.
Francis remarked ‘The Natural Resources of our planet are in serious trouble. The balance between human development and Natural Resources is no longer there. The old taboos and cultures that protected these Resources have been discarded by modern society. This has created major challenges for the environment and those dedicated to its preservation.’
Lonjezo Masikini – has been working as a Monitoring and Evaluation Officer at the Farmers Association of Malawi (NASFAM) training smallholder farmers in areas such as crop production, livestock production, financial management, marketing HIV/AIDS and hopes to ensure that he can further design programme which will specifically target rural people, training them to eradicate rural poverty.
Following his course a the University of East Anglia in Norwich on Rural Development, he intends to look to work in an organisation where they have issues of rural development at their heart.
Negus Deribew – had been working as Livelihoods and Relief Project Officer for Save the Children Denmark, Ehiopia programme; responsible for design planning and implementation income generating projects to benefit rural poor households. He is involved in other projects including short and long term food security projects, soil and water conservation schemes and help run workshops to support these activities.
Through the Natural Resource Development course at Bangor University, Negus hopes to gain the knowledge skills and practice that will, enable him to provide improved services for the dry land farmers in his country.
Surendra Pokharel – left his job as a Plant Protection Officer in the area of Agriculture Development Office, Chitwan, Nepal. He has been involved with training and agriculture extension programmes on Plant Protection and Crop Production, linking research with farming communities together with involvement in ecological approaching programmes which facilitates the sustainable use of natural resources and biodiversity conservation and considers his work to have helped improve livelihoods, empowering the women and leading sustainable agriculture development of the Chitwan District.
He is hoping that the course in Communication for Innovation and Development at Reading University will provide him with the opportunity of further promotion and increase his working efficiency to help improve the rural livelihoods of the Nepalese people.
Francis Qamara - as a Diocesan Land Use Management Co-ordinator and his responsibilities are to mobilize rural people to protect natural forests, water sources and sustainable agriculture to raise farmers productivity and improve the community. He feels that the MSc in Applied Development at Reading University studies help improve the service to his customers.
He intends to return to Tanzania and continue with his present employer, hoping to enhance his responsibilities and scope of this role.
Philipo Malley – He is employed by the College of African Wildlife Management, Mweka in Tanzania. Philipo was involved in teaching, research and consultancy in conservation planning. Previously he undertook a BSc in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Dare s salaam (UCLAS Campus) in Tanzania; he is hoping that his course in Land Management at Cranfield University, will enable him learn new skills and knowledge with more integrated approaches and techniques to address his career challenges in the areas of planning and management of Tanzanian Protected Areas to foster local and National development in teaching, research and consultancy in the areas of conservation planning in Tanzania.
Mohabir Raghunath – is from Guyana, South America and is pursuing an MSc in Environmental Water Management at Cranfield University in Bedfordshire. After gaining a first degree in Agricultural Engineering, he worked for five years as an Agricultural Engineer with the Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc. as part of the project management team of Skeldon Sugar Modernisation Project (S.S.M.P.).
The S.S.M.P. is a multi-million US$ project which involves the construction of a new sugar factory and the cultivation of an additional 4,000 ha of maiden land funded jointly by the Caribbean Development Bank and the Government of Guyana. The project also involves a substantial amount of cane grown by private farmers and is aimed at reducing cost of production by introducing more efficient extracting technologies and utilising machine friendly field layouts.
Mohabir plans to return to Guyana and work with small farmers, large agro-based companies and the Government. His focus will be on the management of water resources for agriculture with emphasis on protecting and conserving the environment.
Catherine Kemigisha – working as an engineer in the Directorate of Water Development. She hopes that the Masters in Science of Water Management at Cranfield will combine both human and agricultural the management techniques, contributing to the water sector in Uganda. She hopes to address public perception and participation in water sector in regions where agriculture is a significant user of water resources.
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