What gets me out of bed in the morning is to make sure no one goes to bed hungry,
everyone has a place and a voice at the table,
and to make sure this is true for the whole world.
You could say it's my symphony.
My Symphony by William Channing: To live content with small means
to seek elegance rather than luxury and refinement rather than fashion
to be worthy not respectable and wealthy not rich to study hard think quietly
talk gently act frankly to listen to stars
birds babes and sages with open heart to bear all cheerfully do all bravely
await occasions hurry never in a word to let the
spiritual unbidden and unconscious grow up through
the common this is to be my symphony.
But Inga that symphony is too large too loud too much how do you deal with
it without being overwhelmed? Maybe I won't bring you the whole truth
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The Breadfruit Project is my grain of salt, the way I work with the wicked
challenge of hunger and agency in the world.
My colleague Junior invited you to see the trees, now Wiscard and Jason will
outline what the project means to them and thereby bring forward details about
the project and small enough pieces of truth we
aren't overwhelmed by the whole truth.
The video is on the grounds of the clinic St. Joseph in Thomassique, Haiti
where the Breadfruit Project is based. We'll connect with surrounding
communities through the community health workers, an already established network
also run by the clinic. Community food systems are by their very
nature complex and trying to work on any portion of it
cascades into other aspects of life in the community development field.
We use the phrase wicked challenges to refer to a challenge that
doesn't have a solution and when we change a variable
the whole of the ecosystem can shift which creates a new baseline.
I'm grateful for my partners on the ground in Haiti that allow me to be a part of
their community as we try to base our choices in research and in common sense.
I got involved in this project to have a real world connection so I didn't get
too high in my ivory tower. Yet from that tower I've had a
perspective to bring to the project that is powerful.
To me this is the best kind of example of living the land grant mission
globally and bringing Ut Prosim into the world.
Hey, I'm Jason Piersaint and I'm a global health fellow
for Medical Missionaries here in Thomassique, Haiti.
Here in Thomassique I'm working alongside an all Haitian staff
including Junior and Wiscard we met earlier and we're also working with
Inga and the U.S. to get this Breadfruit Project going.
We're really excited for this project because one of the main
issues that we see going on here is malnutrition.
Kids and adults really struggle to eat and we feel that this really nutritious
crop will help people. It'll provide them a means of fighting hunger
but also the excess fruit produced by the trees will also give them
an economic resource allowing them to be able to sell it. So we're really excited for
this project and we're really thankful that it's begun to get going.
Yeah, thanks for watching.