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Kuruthumu Hemed Saidi (Class of 26, Tanzania) recently traveled to Costa Rica to join the Spanish and Intercultural Induction Program. For her, the opportunity to study at EARTH means finding a new home, a second family, and the drive to achieve her dreams and improve the quality of life in her country.

EARTH opened its doors for the first time in 1990 to 51 new students from seven countries. Full of dreams and goals, they began their advancement at our University and left a legacy that today’s students continue with pride and conviction…

Yohannes Bimrew Simegn (Class of 2025, Ethiopia), a Mastercard Foundation scholarship recipient, is many things at once: an inventor, a dreamer, and a determined and curious person constantly seeking to innovate and improve the world. He grew up in Gojam, a rural community in Ethiopia with minimal modern technology, where agriculture is the primary source of income…

A 2007 donation from USAID’s American Hospitals and Schools Abroad (ASHA) program created EARTH’s dairy plant. It is a place that encourages experiential learning and produces the best quality dairy products for the university’s internal consumption.

As executive director of EARTH Futures, Emily Fintel Kaiser works each and every day studying and upscaling solutions that improve agricultural sustainability and life quality in rural areas. In this eye-opening interview, she explains how EARTH Futures is magnifying the University’s impact.

Our Class of 2021 recently returned from 15-week professional internships around the world. Fourth-year students Zakeyu Tawonga (Malawi), Ana Marian González (Nicaragua), and Usman Mohammed (Nigeria) feel inspired to get to work in their home countries after transformative experiences in Malawi, Brazil, and the USA.

Since 2007, the United Nations declared that every October 15 is a day to remember the essential role of rural women. The day honors women who farm, take care of their homes, and fight for their communities’ food security. Besides all this, they face daily challenges where they must do everything possible to achieve inclusion, eradicate poverty, and empower and educate themselves in a world that has often closed doors to them…

Ana Giselle Muñoz is an entrepreneur from Río Montaña, an isolated community where fertile land abounds. She and her family participate in an innovative project – led by EARTH Futures and the CRUSA Foundation – that increases agricultural efficiency, widens market access, and enhances life quality for corn farmers in Guanacaste, Costa Rica…

“Corn, as a basic ingredient, comes with many stories. The legend says that the Chorotega people come from maize kernels and that an indigenous woman running through the middle of the cornfield was pricked by a thorn, and drops of her blood fell on the crop, thus painting the maize in different colors.”