Local agent teaches extension in Middle East

Washington State University Extension Specialist Stephen Van Vleet will be traveling to Afghanistan next week to teach Afghani extension educators.

Stephen Van Vleet teaching in Iraq with the Iraqi Director of Extension, bottom right.

Van Vleet will be one of three American extension personnel going to Kabul to teach extension organization, program development and planning and other basic extension methods.

“With all the problems Afghanistan has had, there’s been a lot of funds poured into Afghanistan,” Van Vleet said.

So much money has come in that the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and...