Interview with Megha Agrawal Sood (Doc Society)
Doc Society, a non profit foundation with teams based in Europe, East Africa, the Americas and Australia, is dedicated to
Makafui Borbi is from Ghana, and is pursuing a Master’s degree in Food Science. Growing up in Ghana, she realized how much agricultural produce is wasted during bumper harvests. This realization spurred her to seek solutions to this problem. Currently, Makafui is pursuing the feasibility of setting up a food processing factory in her community to process and preserve fresh agricultural produce in order to minimize post-harvest waste. Before coming to MSU in 2014, she was a teaching and research assistant at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. Together with other teaching assistants, she helped to found Dynamic Research Access Media (DRE-AM) in 2013. DreAM is a registered NGO based in Ghana with the mission of communicating science and technology, and health-related research findings to local communities. DReAM’s major goals are to promote primary prevention of diseases; provide a vehicle through which to communicate science and local research findings to communities; support and promote science and research in Ghana; and to educate local communities on science and technology.
Doc Society, a non profit foundation with teams based in Europe, East Africa, the Americas and Australia, is dedicated to
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Callisto offers a variety of trauma-informed technological tools to empower survivors of sexual violence on college and university campuses. The
Room to Read invests in girls’ education to bring about long-term, systemic changes throughout Cambodian society. The four main elements
Learn how Indigenous social innovators and their communities are advancing climate action.
