Luis Miranda

Today veterinary student Luis Miranda defended his graduation project, the use of whey as a supplement to piglet feed. He found that using whey increased the profitability of production, and decreased diarrhea.

Luis has been working for the far-off municipality of Alto Beni, helping the local government write grants to make their rural communities more successful. This is a very important job: most rural development done by local government relies on grants from the government and non-governmental organizations, but most rural municipalities do not have people capable of writing and managing grants.


Photo: New graduate Luis Miranda poses with his father after his successful defense.

When he spoke after receiving his grade, he said, "Sister Damon got all of us together at the end of our year of pre-university studies, and we all thanked her. But she told us, 'I appreciate your thanks, but what I really want is for you to become professionals -- that will be your real thanks to me.'" Well, today she got her wish with Luis Miranda.