Today a group of agricultural educators and agriculture high school students/FFA members take off for Kosovo to kickoff the Kosovo/Iowa Ag Ed/FFA project. This is a project that was first envisioned by at the time Iowa Secretary of Agriculture, Bill Northey (now Undersecretary at the USDA), and Minister of Agriculture for Kosovo, Memli Krasniqi (now member of Kosovo Parliament) as part of an Iowa Sister States organized experience that the Global Agriculture Learning Center (GALC) was a part of. That vision was further developed this past May when the Iowa Farm Bureau, Iowa FFA Foundation, Iowa FFA Association, and GALC traveled to Kosovo with Iowa Sister States.
Today all the visions and planning become a reality! We are off to improve agricultural education in both Kosovo and Iowa through this spectacular partnership. Over the next week Iowa participants will meet with the Ministries of Agriculture and Education in Kosovo, tour agriculture businesses and producers, and spend time with their partner schools in Kosovo. After we return the partnership will continue with online interaction monthly before agricultural educators and students from Kosovo come to Iowa in April.
We look forward to an awesome experience of learning and growing together! Below are the paired Kosovo and Iowa schools.
Gjakova and Oelwien
Gjilian and Independence
Peja and Union (La Porte/Dysart)
Prishtina and Pleasantville
Vurshtrri and Waukee
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