Moses Ariong | Global Health Corps

Moses Ariong

Moses

Co-fellow

Alexis

Alexis Barnes

Placement Country: Uganda
Title: Food Security Fellow
"The need to ensure that vulnerable children and their families are supported to meet basic needs like medical care, education, and food keeps me motivated."

Ariong is a trained Agriculture Officer with Skills in Project Planning and management. He has for the last 06 years worked; as a Program Officer for Youth Empowerment, Health and food security while with Partners for Children Worldwide (Previously from 2008 to 2012 and currently since July 2013); as an Agriculture Extension officer with the International Institute for Rural Reconstruction Uganda and as a Global Health Corps Fellows (Class 2012-2013). Moses has touched not only the lives of many subsistence farmers whose productivity has improved due to the trainings they got in modern Farming techniques but has also given hope to the out of School youth in Teso sub region (Eastern Uganda) through the Vocational Skills youth empowerment program that he manages. Moses is currently a Candidate for a Masters in Management Degree (Uganda Management Institute) and a student of Public Health at the International Health Sciences University in Uganda. He possesses other Skills in Monitoring and Evaluation, Data management and analysis as well as blogging.