Senator Ian Gorst has now returned to the Island after visiting South Africa, Kenya and Rwanda, where he met senior officials from all three countries.
The visit also gave him the opportunity to see the work being carried out by Jersey Overseas Aid, including a £1 million project to help Rwanda’s dairy farmers.
The project aims to train and equip 200 artificial insemination technicians, create a digital database for Rwanda’s dairy herd and help at least 12,000 dairy farmers improve breeding and feeding techniques.
By 2018, Jersey Overseas Aid expects 200,000 cows to be inseminated each year.
The Senator also visited the Kigali Genocide Memorial alongside Jersey’s honorary Rwandan Consul, John Dick, to pay his respects to the 250,000 murdered in the country in 1994.
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