From July 2006 to August 2007, Josephine worked with CARE International in Zambia managing the Scaled Sorghum Commercialization Project. The project was to build a market value chain of sorghum combining stimulation of production, managing the processing and encouraging marketing of the transformed product. Through the 13 months working on this project, Josephine has trained [...]
Patrick Pichette is the Chairman of EWB’s Board of Directors. Patrick has taken his role seriously and has gone all the
way to understanding the role of a development worker. In 2006 Patrick came to visit me in Zambia and had me put him to work. He asked to have a thorough understanding of the Sorghum [...]
Here is an excerpt from the letter:
During Josephine’s time at CARE International Zambia, she implemented and analyzed the sorghum market value chain. The process was broken in three steps; production, processing and marketing. in production, Josephine was instrumental in forming farmers based organizations in the bulking of a drought tolerant cereal crop sorghum. Next, [...]
February 14th 2009
To the Selection Committee of Sauve Scholars,
Moving to Zambia for four months for an Engineers Without Border’s development fellowship carried a lot of risks. Health concerns aside, I was 21 years old, and passionately wanted to make a difference in the world. I was well aware that this idealism was not unique to [...]
Sorghum Cultivation in Zambia
EWB volunteer Josephine Tsui is currently working with CARE Zambia, assisting in a market driven sorghum pilot project. The Southern Province of Zambia has been hit with frequent droughts, suffering an estimated loss of 40-65% of crops last year. The vast majority of rural Zambians live in extreme poverty, and nearly all [...]