Director’s Report:
An article about ARI was featured in the Japan Times on September 2.
It is titled “Over half a century, seeds of change grow at a Tochigi farm”
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2024/09/02/our-lives/asian-rural-insititute-tochigi-namibia-cambodia-germany/
The article describes what this year’s participant from Namibia (pictured) is learning, how the lives of the German volunteers of 2003 and the Cambodian graduates of 2010 have been changed by coming to ARI, and the significance of ARI’s training programs.
Medeleine Cuckson, the author of the article, is a British national who stayed at ARI for a three-week Christian group leadership training in July and is now working in Romania helping Ukrainian refugees.