Today (Wednesday) was an incredibly exciting day. We had an early start to the day with an interview with Dr. Zimmerman at the Polytechnic University. Dr. Zimmerman is the Deputy Director of the Department of Agriculture at the Polytechnic, and had so much knowledge surrounding the the issue of food security in Namibia and ways to combat it. Following our meeting with him, we finally were able to meet with George Buekes! George works at the American Cultural Center in Namibia and has been one of our biggest resources as he has so graciously helped us on so many occasions, including setting up a very exciting meeting today! Our whole team met personally with the US Ambassador in Namibia today, Mr. Thomas Daughton. It was an incredible experience and we cannot believe that we had the opportunity to talk to him about the projects that our Class has taken on. And to top it all off, he personally said that he was beyond impressed with all that our Class is doing, which was a HUGE compliment from a person of such high esteem. We are hopeful that he will come to speak at our conference in January, so stay tuned for updates (as well as a photo from our meeting today).
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