Member interview: Fertile ground for peace
As a teenager growing up in central Iowa, Nora Tobin had ready access to food, clean water, and medical care. “The only time I didn’t eat was when I didn’t like what was on my plate,” she recalls.
Today Tobin, now 28 and a member of the Rotary Club of Cedar Valley, is working to make sure others have the same advantages that she did. She is the executive director of Self-Help International in Waverly, Iowa, a nonprofit that trains and educates farmers in Ghana and Nicaragua to boost crop yields and improve nutrition. It also administers a children’s feeding program and small-business loan…
