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April 12, 2007 issue
Boitshepo “Bibi” Giyose, senior food and nutrition security adviser for the African Union’s New Partnership for Africa’s Development (AU/NEPAD) in Midrand, South Africa, will visit ASU from Friday, April 20, through Monday, April 23.
Giyose coordinates nutrition activities and provides policy direction for the African continent. She also works with the United Nations and other organizations.
Giyose is a 1989 graduate of Appalachian. During her visit, she will receive the Appalachian Alumni Association’s Distinguished Alumni Award and will share her knowledge and experiences in eradicating poverty and placing African countries on a path of sustainable growth, and working to empower women.
A welcome reception for Giyose will be held Friday, April 20, from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. in the Jefferson Room at the Broyhill Inn and Conference Center on campus.
On Monday, April 23, Giyose will give two presentations in Room 114 of Carol Grotnes Belk Library and Information Commons. At 11:00 a.m. she will present Out of Africa: Sustainable Development and Advocacy, and at 2:00 p.m. she will present Food Security Issues in African Cultures: The Impact of Nutrition. The public is invited to attend these events.
Giyose graduated from Appalachian with a bachelor of science degree in food and nutrition and a concentration in general dietetics from the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences. She began her career with the Ministry of Health in Botswana, and later attended graduate school at Cornell University. After earning a master’s degree in international nutrition, Giyose returned to South Africa to resume helping malnourished and impoverished people in her country and region.
She has been a regional project coordinator for a United Nations initiative to improve the U.N.’s HIV response in small population countries in Africa. For five years, she was the regional coordinator of the food and nutrition program at the Commonwealth Regional Health Community Secretariat for East, Central and Southern Africa, based in Tanzania.
For more information about Giyose or her visit, contact Jodi (Wright) Hartley in the College of Fine and Applied Arts at 828-262-7249 or wrightjl@appstate.edu.
What: Out of Africa: Sustainable Development and Advocacy
Date: Monday, April 23
Times: 11:00 a.m.
Location: Belk Library, Room 114
Cost: Free
What: Food Security Issues in African Cultures: The Impact of Nutrition
Date: Monday, April 23
Times: 2:00 p.m.
Location: Belk Library, Room 114
Cost: Free