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issues as as so um it's growing

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i know from from our previous uh discussions but

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i hope you see this as a great opportunity um as

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well and and the way i discuss it with them is as we have discussed it

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as you know this is truly success

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concern.

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And it's another way of us taking a more holistic view

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of understanding student success and providing

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the support that's needed to ensure that all students have an opportunity

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to succeed when they're at the university level.

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You know,

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Dr.

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Mugabe and I discussed that,

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and as we have discussed,

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you know, most governments

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really look at food insecurity at,

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you know,

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the primary and secondary level.

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And even once you get to the high school,

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it's not seen as...

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critical and definitely at the university level so this

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is an opportunity for us to really be able to do that so

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the other reason also getting with the school uh that's in

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the collaborative in east africa um is to be able to work with

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them with their irv as well in case you know there's an

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aspect of of that so um that's

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pretty much

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summary of the meeting from yesterday that

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I wanted to make sure we had an opportunity to discuss and to hear

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your thoughts as well and then kind

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of fill you in on next steps.

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But let me stop here first.

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Yeah.

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First of all,

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I'm going to thank you so much.

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Like we deeply so much appreciate like what are you doing?

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Yeah,

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making sure that our project and all

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our work that we're doing in universities put to a next level because.

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I've been reading around about factors that affect

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student success while at universities.

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And it's quite a broad thing.

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But then you like being able to also put

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student food security in the scope.

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It is really something that we really so much appreciate.

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yeah i thank you for that and um we've been doing quite

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uh some of uh been doing some been busy yeah

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lately and uh yeah and joel i think has

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prepared something for us a simple presentation yeah

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oh great yeah and uh yeah he'll take us through what we've been doing

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on our side and then also i'll also i'll

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also get to take you through what

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some of the things that i also managed to develop

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while in this period,

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you know,

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me and Joel,

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we off -campus,

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yeah, we finished our studies,

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but we still go back and try

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to study about the situation about food,

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what are the gaps that are there in

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terms of the food environment.

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So,

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yeah, we noticed a certain gap of which we came up with this good...

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idea and we shall also be sharing it but um i'll

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let joel take over and then take us a few of the things that he has for

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us right now yeah great thank you um

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i

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don't know my my screen is fair is failing

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to share here but uh i'll keep it simple

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actually it was part of the things we had discussed in

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the whatsapp group

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Some of the brief overview that we had shared with you,

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Dr. And,

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yeah,

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from how we grew.

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Last time when we talked,

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we were around 800 students.

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But then we came back when it's 2

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,500.

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And at least we have grown our network,

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making collaborations with students' associations

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in four different campuses currently.

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as the universities were shared in a group.

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And on that,

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we also had a pilot study of the

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campus nutrition seminars.

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This was initiated because students,

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they have the basic meals to start the semester.

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They have the little money,

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they start with the semester.

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But then the problem they have,

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usually for those that have,

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is that

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We get to only buy one type of food,

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that would be men's flour or rice.

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So a student gets to finish an entire semester surviving

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on one type of meal.

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We piloted

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that with an agro

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nutritionist partner that is called Body and Soil.

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It's a new organization here.

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And we had it successfully.

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We started at Chambogoy University with 25 student leaders.

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We wanted to learn more from the student leaders.

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What kind of meals do most of the students

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have?

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What do they see about nutrition at campus?

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Because at least for them,

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they can represent a big number of students.

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And it was successful.

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And it was successful.

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So we are continuing.

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Now we want to read out the national case in that model

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because we proved that it works.

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And in that nutrition seminar,

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we,

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yeah,

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excuse me.

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So in that nutrition seminar,

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we got what we wanted to test and now we want to extend out.

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It was a proof of concept and we saw that it works.

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Now we are looking on ways on how to maybe amplify more

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on that.

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And our first initiative following the seminar was to get

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the freshmen during their orientation week,

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give to them a traditional advice because

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the freshmen,

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these are students that are in a transitional stage.

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They are coming from high school where their meals are already prepared.

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They are already shared.

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I mean,

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they are already prepared and,

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you know, planned for.

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They are coming from like a golden

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platter, you know,

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like.

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So everything is planned.

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But then when they come to campus...

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Some of them don't know how to cook.

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They don't know how to prepare their meals,

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how to plan for them.

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So it's through these nutrition education seminars that

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we are fighting food insecurity by first of all

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instilling in the students the coping mechanisms on

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how to survive off campus.

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Also,

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we are also given some financial management skills.

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For instance,

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there is a platform that we are developing

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It's a meal preparation

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website or application.

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And Victor will talk more about that.

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And these are part of some few initiatives

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that we are coming up with so that we can get to solve this problem.

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And then we go

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to the research as we had earlier on discussed.

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but that is still at our post but we are also glad

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from hearing after hearing from you uh with the good news and

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uh yeah so we have reached there basically but

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our biggest achievement so far has been the nutrition education session

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seminar but then also the orientation but still

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we still have this problem like

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we reached out to the dean of students last monday

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at Chambogo University.

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But as we still have this problem that the

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administration still resents us,

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you know?

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Because when we reached out with our proposal to the dean of students,

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because it handles the student welfare,

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as much as the university appreciated our

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first musician campaign

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that we had,

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they appreciated it and it was published.

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Even the department

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that we partnered with,

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the nutrition department.

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We are very okay with it.

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But when we went high up the offices,

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the dean of students,

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there was some

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resentment for us to access the

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orientation,

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not to have access to the students in orientation.

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We need to pay up to 2 million Ugandan shillings.

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yes for us to do our own service yeah but as

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students yeah so yeah those are the kind

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of the problems that you know i feel like maybe that education

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education collaborative could actually amplify us or

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empower us to have the connections from up in the universities

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themselves because currently those are the kind of problems because for

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us we feel like if students are succeeding and through

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this

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problem is addressed well we feel like even the university is

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winning and when we reach out to the university and then they give

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to us these roadblocks yeah yeah

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it really breaks the soul and uh you know the efforts or the motivation but

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you're not losing soul at least now you are trying to work it from the other route

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like

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If they are not giving us the main platform for the entire university,

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at least now we can go reach out to individual

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departments with different deans in different departments.

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And at least for them,

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they can give us access in the departmental orientations to those

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that can allow.

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At least now that is our approach in

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regards to the education around nutrition.

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yeah um yeah just

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to go back a bit to the nutrition seminar yeah

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um it was a success yeah

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how much it was it was a proof of concept

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But just to go take you through a little bit of details of

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what it was about.

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We were trying to teach

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students skills,

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food security skills,

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I would call them.

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And then how could they prepare meals,

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nutritious meals at a budget.

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And we also trying to bridge

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a gap.

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about the foods that are being served in schools.

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For example,

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Joel has said that students,

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in their high school stage,

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everything is planned for them.

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Breakfast, the lunch,

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the supper,

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everything is planned.

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But when you look at what has been planned for them,

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you won't miss out posho and beans.

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And in most of the schools,

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that is the case.

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And yeah,

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so their meals were mostly monotonous.

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And there was a gap.

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And thank God that we happened to partner with Body

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and Soil that is reconnecting communities

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to their local foods.

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For example,

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for us, we have here like different,

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a number of cultures around here.

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And when I talk about cultures,

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that means that...

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There is different preferences of foods.

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So yeah,

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we have a rich diversity of foods here and in our

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efforts to end campus hunger,

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we want also reconnect students to their local

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foods because those are the foods that they relate to.

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Poshu and beans,

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when you go back in the time,

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it was a food that was introduced during the colonial age.

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So we want to end that through

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these nutrition seminars as well.

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And yeah,

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that's one thing I thought of it would be important to mention about.

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Just to talk about the application that I

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was developing recently.

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Now,

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still,

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when you look at the gap in

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the transition of students from high school life to campus

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life, students are coming from a background

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where meals are being prepped for them,

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you know.

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meals are being prepared to them by the

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school cooks.

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They find everything ready.

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But here,

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when you join campus,

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for example, even us,

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we never knew where to find foods.

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You enter campus,

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you don't know where you're going to get your lunch from,

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your breakfast from.

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So we realized that a lot of mistakes are done by

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freshmen students.

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So,

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there came an idea of meal

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plans.

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I'm pretty sure

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you're quite familiar with what meal plans are.

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So,

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the idea of meal plans is we studied

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the different kinds of students that are a campus.

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For example,

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there are those...

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who are at campus for a weekly basis,

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that those who do evening classes,

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that those who do weekend classes.

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There are different kinds of students.

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There are those with special needs as well.

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And we figured that

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if we come up with an application where the

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students could have meal plans,

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and this would help them because what

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we are doing, we are collaborating with local restaurants.

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We are going around different restaurants and then...

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determine what kinds of foods are they offering what kinds of what

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are the prices they are set so we bridge the gap

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between students and then where they could get foods because

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those who are able to get to subscribe to

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those meal plans yeah and maybe i'm

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gonna take you through this application briefly

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and you see how it

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It works in just a second here.

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Are

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you guys able to see my windows?

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Yes.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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So the application is

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called Lunch Link.

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So this is like an

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account, an online account that offers students prepaid meals.

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So the students get to subscribe at the start of the semester.

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And then they go to their preferred restaurants

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and then claim the meals on whichever

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subscription that they've subscribed to.

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So I

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talked about different students

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at campus.

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And these are the kind of

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meal plans, the basic meal plans that we thought of.

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that students might get to subscribe to.

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They are traditional,

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they are unlimited,

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they are fixed meal plans.

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Again,

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depending on what kind of students that you are,

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you would

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always subscribe to this kind of meal plan.

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And quickly,

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I'm going to take you through the students' login panel.

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and then uh you see

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how it works here so yeah

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um this is like a student's dashboard now

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yeah this is uh this is where like

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a student will get to know how many meals they have um

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how many meals they are remaining with uh i'm

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having here lunch credits now uh

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meal types are always standardized to a certain price

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of a certain

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amount of money whereby in case a student wants something

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extra, in case they are to claim a meal at

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their preferred restaurant,

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there is that extra amount of money that

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is offered to them to purchase drinks,

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you know,

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water or anything.

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So yeah,

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those are like the lunch credits.

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So they get to use them to get extra extras

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to supplement the food.

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So briefly,

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when the student goes to

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their preferred restaurant,

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they would simply show in the QR code.

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And then of

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course the restaurant would scan it and then they would be served.

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As simple as that.

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And it's very secure,

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yeah,

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because the link always expires within five minutes,

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and you could always refresh to a

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different, in case it expires,

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there's always a new link that is embedded.

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Yeah,

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and in case the QR code happens not to work,

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there is always a certain number that comes at every

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end of the cycle.

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They would always redeem their mail.

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yeah so they could always

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choose their preferred restaurants um around

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their near their location and i believe this is something very

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good for students with special needs for example

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you wouldn't want um a student who

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um um a

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student with a different kind of special need for example if they are not

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if moving from one location to another is something would

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be difficult to them they would come here and see what

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restaurant is really close to them and then they would check

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it out and then yeah they would go there and here they

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would always browse around although i haven't put the photos in there but

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they would always browse around the different kinds of meals that are offered

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in those yeah restaurants and

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the different kinds of meal plans that are offered.

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So it is still in development.

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Yeah.

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But it's something that I believe it's going to be a

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plus on our efforts to end campus

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hunger.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Now,

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this is all great.

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And so,

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Victor,

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you're building this out yourself,

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this whole life form.

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yes i am building it by myself great

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great no this this this is great um

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So, as I said,

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you know, as we started,

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you all have been doing some great work to continue this.

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And so knowing all of this will help me when it's time to

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put together the grant proposal,

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what to put into it,

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because part of it could be,

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you know,

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as much as we're collecting data,

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it could be an opportunity to pilot certain things,

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like, for example,

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the platform that you're...

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building out if there's an opportunity to do something like that or

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and or continue with the nutritional uh seminar

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that that you've already started or to expand on those

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um as well and so that's something we can definitely uh

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look at when we get to that point dr uh mugabe

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said i think we're going to try to reconnect by thursday

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to let you know about which

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school in Uganda,

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which faculty member I can connect with

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there for us to look at the work and to do

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things as it needs to be.

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If we don't connect with a particular person

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he has in mind,

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we have a plan B to be able to move this forward as well

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because ultimately

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uh the two hubs have really agreed that this is important for

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us to to support this work and to um

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bring it into the education collaborative and as you said it's

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an opportunity for us to have a voice um

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a global continental voice coming from the education collaborative

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which people

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so as you said it was difficult for you to uh speak

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with the dean of students because you shouldn't have to pay that kind of money to

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speak to other students where as you said it's

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pro bono work you know that

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we you know figure out

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on as well i i really like also uh victor

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what you're you're pulling out because it's beginning to look at like what

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you see globally at universities where uh

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students do purchase meal plans and but what's

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different

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From what you might see on the continent most of the time in other places,

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they have the options like you are showing.

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Some of them use like gold,

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silver, platinum level,

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you know,

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types.

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And each one,

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you're paying a little more money as you're saying,

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you know, more options,

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you know, as well.

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I think one thing that might be great to consider in this

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and what you see globally in these types of plans is when

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students don't use,

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all of what they,

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all of the funds that they've put into the plan,

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right?

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Most of the times,

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universities don't have where you can,

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so the semester ends and the

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spring semester ends.

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It doesn't allow you to take that money into the following semester,

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say for the fall.

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Some school where I've done,

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set it up where

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Students may be able to use that money to do what

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called bulk ordering.

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So let's say,

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for example,

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there's a store on campus where you can,

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you know, go and buy provisions.

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Students can use those funds to

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buy a bulk of provisions.

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Of course,

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you know, non -perishable ones.

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So for example,

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if they're selling,

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you know,

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Then we can buy those in bulk and have them ready for when they

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come back in the fall because there's no exploration on those.

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But they can only use up to a

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certain amount.

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And then if they still have funds left

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on their account,

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the university has a system in place

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that it takes that money.

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what could be used and they put

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it into an account where then students who

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are being challenged with food insecurity and unable

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to say put more money on their plan the university can

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then take money from that account to help those students so

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it's another way where students are helping each other without really

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knowing, but the monies are not going to waste.

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