• Mr. G.
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• Hungry and Homeless
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• The economic giant
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• Student art graces campus
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• Social Media Mashup
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• Goya, Dalí, and More
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• Ed.D. in leadership
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• "Babes in Arms"
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• Researching St. Lucia's past
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• Meet our freshmen
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• Broadening horizons
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• Exploring the great outdoors
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• DPT class sets the standard
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• Take a risk
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• Marching into life
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• A special graduation walk
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• Relive the Day! LC Day 2011
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• Green Thumbs
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• Sustainable?
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• Learning Through Nature
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• The Road to Gulu
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• Why LC is Great
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• Colleges That Change Lives
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• Learn the World
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• The physics of sports (and more)
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• Coach of the Year
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• Whimsical, self-taught art
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• Stellar Athletics
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• Heading to the Final Four
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• Hunger and homelessness - up close and personal
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• First Class
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• Creating Avatar
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• To Infinity and Beyond
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• Archived Features

The Road to Gulu

If you give a man a fish, he eats for a day. If you teach him to fish, he eats for a lifetime. That old saying resonates with Dr. Todd Olsen, associate professor of health and education and women's soccer coach, who will soon make his sixth trip to Africa, where he trains teachers in health education, and helps drill wells to provide clean water. This trip will include a well dedicated to Anna Wright '11. Read her story.

Dr. Olsen has trained about 125 people in Gulu and Kampala, Uganda, and Nairobi, Kenya, where grinding poverty and lack of education keep many people in the dark about the most basic principles of hygiene, safety, and health.

Children wash their hands in the same basin of dirty water. People don't know whether thunder or lightning is a bigger concern. Women with AIDS think it's safe to breast feed their children.

"They're so hungry for information," Dr. Olsen said. "There are so many myths."

Read about Dr. Olsen's Road to Gulu in the premier version of the LC magazine online. (No Flash? Read it here.)