OUR FELLOWS
Beatrice Ekesa Onyango knows firsthand what hunger feels like. As the firstborn in a family of six children, she came from a very poor family, and her mother passed away a few months after she had finished high school. Her father could only afford to support her financially for the first year of public university, so she took on several casual jobs to pay her own school fees and those of her younger siblings.
I heard about an organization of Canadian women called ACCESS that provides scholarships. I baked a cake, went to meet them, and told them about myself. Thanks
Field of Research
Improving the food and nutritional security of poor smallholder communities via working to understand and enhance retention, bioaccessibility, and bioavailability of provitamin A carotenoids in Musa fruit and derived products (banana and plantain).