Noon Meal Improves Girls' Learning in Burkina Faso

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Project Personnel

Thomas L. Vollrath - FBF Project Committee Chair

Tom was a member of the first group of Peace Corps volunteers sent to Upper Volta in 1967. His affiliation with the local agricultural extension service instilled a deep commitment to development, leading to graduate training in agricultural economics. He is an economist with the Economic Research Service of USDA.

Kristie McComb - President, Friends of Burkina Faso

Kristie has her MPH in Global Health and works as a Health Specialist at the Peace Corps office in DC providing support to community health projects. She was a Community Health Development volunteer in Burkina Faso from 2001-03 and stayed on to work as a Technical Advisor for the Carter Center's Global 2000 Guinea worm eradication program.

Suzanne M. Plopper - FBF Manager, NEEED Project

Suzanne worked in health education as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Burkina Faso and returned later to work with a rural water supply/primary healthcare project. For the past 23 years, she has worked as a consultant in reproductive and child health in 26 African countries, as well as in Eastern Europe and in the Middle East.