The Manzanar Project
Here's an interesting story about Dr. Gordon Sato and the Manzanar Project: Out of Manzanar “I thought, ‘If they can build an atomic bomb and call it the Manhattan Project, maybe I can help stop famine and call it the Manzanar Project. Maybe it’s my romantic nature,” says Gordon Sato, PhD ’56, who has devoted much of the last 20 years of his life to alleviating hunger in the Horn of Africa nation of Eritrea. He was on his way there for the first time when he decided to name his antihunger project after the Manzanar relocation camp in the California desert, where he and his family, along with thousands of other Japanese Americans, had been interned during World War II. Arriving in Eritrea, he found the country locked in a brutal struggle for independence from Ethiopia, whose attempts to starve the rebel nation into submission had unleashed widespread famine in the region. The intense, soft-spoken American biologist won the trust of the rebel leadership, and with the support of the Eritrean military established an ocean-based fish-farming operation in a village on the country’s northern coast, which produced high-protein food for the wounded. Read the entire article: Clique Iniciar Sessão ou Registar-se para colocar comentários
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