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3586 Centennial Rd., Hanover, Pa. 17331
717-637-2214
A $250,000 fund drive has been officially launched in
Dauphin County to build an Agriculture and Natural
Resources Center.
The Center, which will contain offices for ag and natural
resources agencies, a 400-Seat auditorium with kitchen for
dinner meetings, two conference rooms and a workshop for
hand-on experience, will be located in Middle Paxton Twp. at
the northeast corner of the intersection of Rts. 225 and 325,
north of Dauphin.
Five acres of land have been donated for the Center and
Dauphin County Commissioners have committed a matching
5250,000 for its construction.
r A Kick-Off Banquet has officially launched the drive.
£ Organizations to be located at the Center will include the
[(County Extension Service, Conservation District, SCS and
SASCS.
I Interested citizens, businesses and organizations may
the Extension Service or Conservation District in
fcj Dauphin County for more information.
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' ax deductible donations to the "D.C.C.D. Ag Center
\/ / / / Fund” may be sent to Dauphin county Conservation District,
j 1205 South 28th St., Harrisburg, Pa. 17111-1095.
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Lancaster Farming, Satnrrfay, November 24,1M4-A35
Women in
WASraNGTON, D.C.
The women come
from Asia, Africa, the
Middle East and Latin
America. Two of them
speak very little
English. One works for
the U.S. government
and another for the
United Nations.
Despite differences in
language, culture and
customs, they all have
one thing in common:
they are senior-level
managers who have
ventured into areas long
dominated by men -
agriculture and rural
development.
For several years,
USDA’s Office of In
ternational Cooperation
and Development
(OICD) has sponsored
“Management and the
Role of Women in
Development,” a course
for women from
developing coutries who
are already managers
and those with strong
management potential.
This year the group
consisted entirely of
high-level managers,
according to Mary
Rojas, one of course’s
directors and a
professor at the Virginia
Polytechnic Institute.
Rojas and the program
coordinator, Linda
Ayres, administer the
course on contract for
OICD.
“They come because
they want to strengthen
their skills in
management and learn
how to design programs
for women’s needs.”
Rojas said.
One such person is
Anna Bathily,
Senegalese employee of
the U.S. Agency for
International Develo
pment’s (AID) mission
in her country. Since she
is in charge of AID’S
“Women in Develop
ment” program in
Senegal, she wanted to
share the experiences of
other women managers
from developing nations
and observe the U.S.
approach to solving
women’s problems.
Yamilet Mejia,
coordinator of Hon
duras’ National
Agrarian Institute for
Rural Development,
who supervises 300
employees and is the
USDA course
organization, had
similar reasons for
taking the course.
According to AID
officials, the social
changes that have
accompanied develop
ment resulted in women
being pushed into
agriculture. However,
they say this is not the
case in Europe, the U.S.
and other developing
countries.
AID statistics reveal
that in developing
countries, women are
farmers, doing much of
the hard physical labor
of agricultural work -
but seldon getting credit
for it. In Africa, for
example, they perform
about 60 to 80 percent of
all agricultural labor,
but rarely receive
support from govern
ment training
programs.
“The OICD
management course is
designed to fill those
gaps,” Rojas says. “It is
vital that women play a
large role in managing
rural development
organizations and that
nations consider women
in their development
plans and programs.”
The six-week course
concentrates on
developing managem
ent skills in leadership,
public speaking, stress
and time management,
and proposal writing.
An important
segment of the course
allows the women to
follow other
agricultural managers
and observe first-hand
how they go about their
daily work routine. That
may involve following
an extension worker in
Blacksburg, Va., for
instance, or another
neighboring com
munity. Course par
ticipants gain some idea
of how USDA
agriculturalists help
American farmers.