Field officers
Passionate, advantageous, creative...
We are proud of our Field Officers.They are passionate young people who love what they do. They work hard in the field and help people in developing countries on the daily basis. They are advantageous trendsetters who take risk when it is needed. Meet them and find out what they think and feel about Teach A Man To Fish:
trendsetters who take risk when it is needed. Meet them and find out what they think and feel about Teach A Man To Fish:
Emily, Field Officer in Uganda
As a project officer for Teach A Man To Fish I am in the privileged position of being able to see how the sustainable education model positively impacts the students and community day to day. The concept of the model sounded great from the UK, but it wasn’t until I started working with the community here in Uganda that it really dawned on me how relevant the model is to the issues we are addressing. There are many schools in developing countries around the world starting small income generating activities to try and make ends meet, but with help from the Teach A Man To Fish model, these schools can use income generating activities to pass vital practical business skills onto their students, as well as increase the scale and profits of their businesses. I work alongside determined and passionate Ugandans to help them make this model a reality in their community.
Rachel, Field Officer in Nicaragua
One of the best things about being a project officer with Teach A Man To Fish is getting fully immersed in daily life in your school community and experiencing firsthand the positive impacts that sustainable technical education has on the lives of the pupils. I feel that we really are ‘being’ and ‘living’ the change that we hope to bring about, and it is incredibly satisfying to witness the progress being made as you help the school to move bit by bit towards sustainability. This type of education really does equip people with the skills they will use in their day-to-day lives, as almost everyone here has a piece of land and some animals. At our school they learn the skills they need to be able to make a good living from the land, rather than just subsistence farming, and hopefully to break the cycle of poverty. I love how this model of education turns the disadvantage of lacking funds into an advantage as a positive learning experience for our students, whereby they gain entrepreneurial and income generating skills in our real-life school businesses and come away with a practical, relevant and good quality education. Everyone at La Bastilla is working incredibly hard to make this happen, and the teachers and pupils are such an inspiration – it makes all of the hard work totally worth it!
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