Bernie Reyes's blog We’ll keep this short: “Vote for the Appropriations Committee recommendation for foreign operations and against any cuts that would hurt hungry and poor people.” That was the succinct message of a slide posted by Bread for the Wor ...
Bernie Reyes's blog Bungoma, Kenya The teenagers of rural western Kenya I have met during the past year have no shortage of ambition. Especially the girls. They want to be doctors and nurses and teachers and lawyers and pilots. One girl, an eighth- ...
Bernie Reyes's blog Bungoma, Kenya Norman Borlaug and Wangari Maathai were two unlikely Nobel Peace Prize Laureates. One came from small-town Iowa, the other from rural Kenya. They both won the world’s most prestigious award for growing things. Dr ...
Bernie Reyes's blog The 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks is bringing back a rush of memories and emotions. Everyone it seems is recalling, with respect for the victims, where they were on that day when they heard or watched t ...
Bernie Reyes's blog Kajiado, Kenya With drought devastating farms from the Horn of Africa to the Panhandle of Texas, I journeyed to one of the frontlines of climate change to “chew the news,” as the Maasai say. “Climate change for us is what is visib ...
Bernie Reyes's blog Kabuchai, Kenya At 6:30 this morning, as the sun was coming up, Sanet Biketi walked out of his small house made of mud and sticks. Carrying a machete at his side, he headed straight to the edge of his maize field and said a praye ...
Bernie Reyes's blog Bungoma, Kenya Two scenes from the great African paradox of surplus and shortage – feast and famine – in the same country: In rural western Kenya, farmer Crispinus Walubengo harvests a bumper crop of maize. He is expecting a half- ...
Bernie Reyes's blog The promises made by the leaders of the rich world in L’Aquila, Italy, two years ago were supposed to stop what is now happening in the Horn of Africa. But those pledges haven’t been kept, and starvation is raging once again. This ...
Bernie Reyes's blog East Lansing, Michigan Vision. Strategy. Tactics. These were the priorities that emerged at my table during a discussion about the role of U.S. universities, government agencies, NGOs, foundations and the African diplomatic comm ...
Bernie Reyes's blog The Nigerian ambassador to the U.S., Adebowale Ibidapo Adefuye, tells an acerbic joke to illustrate the importance of good leadership: Someone noticed that God had blessed Nigeria with so much: oil, agriculture, natural resources, ...
