Harriet Saawo

Harriet Saawo
UCDavis Humphrey Scholar

I am a UC Davis Humphrey Fellow here in the U.S. for ten months. I am from Uganda and there, I serve as a district natural resources officer with Kalangala district; an island district in Uganda. As head of the department of natural resources, I coordinate activities of the forest services, environment & wetland management, and land management sectors.

As part of the Humphrey program, fellows are required to do a professional affiliation with a US organization; and that is how I met Dr. Eliska Rejmankova who told me about the Atitlan Expedition Program.

The trainings have been great. I have gained a lot on useful information in this new area, and going to lake Amtitlan further reinforced what I had learned from the classroom lectures. The multiple uses of water hyacinth in cleaning the polluted water in Lake Amatitlan, production of biogas and as livestock feed, is one of the things most relevant to me and management of Lake Victoria in Uganda and I am excited to share this information and other experiences from this expedition. In about a week so far, I can confidently say that this was a great opportunity that had indeed to be seized without hesitation.



Lecture at Universidad Landivar Rafael