Emma Clippinger, a sophomore at Brown, and Emily Morell, a sophomore at Yale, have started a project that will at once promote self-sufficiency and decrease malnutrition in Rwanda’s HIV-positive women. The two students have founded the Umurima Project, which is part of Gardens for Health International—an organization Clippinger and Morell established in August 2006. The innovative project teams the Rwandan women with a trained agronomist (a soil and crop specialist) to ensure sustainability.

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