How to order:
Send a request by email to JB Hoover, executive director
of the American Friends of ARI (AFARI) john.b.hoover@gmail.com AFARI is a registered US based support organization for ARI and it is handling
distribution of the English version of the book through out the world.
Please provide the following information: Name Postal address Phone number Number of books you want
Payment: A book will be provided free of charge to those who request it. However, a donation of $20 or more would help tremendously to offset the costs of printing, shipping, and handling.
Donations may be made by the following method:
On line by credit card 
By check on a US bank account sent to:
American Friends of
ARI (AFARI)
c/o J.B. Hoover, Executive Director
1121 N 94th St.
Seattle, WA 98103-3305
To see excerpts for the Rural Leaders book, click on Women Leaders or Nepali Grad's work.
*Abma and Cutting’s project was
called the “ARI Graduate Impact Study.”
(It is different from an earlier study carried out by the Fetzer
Institute that bears the same name.) The
study produced two major pieces. The
first was a highly valuable academic report provided to ARI called Leading at the Grassroots: A Study of the
Influence of Asian Rural Institute Graduates on Communities. This report gives an in-depth analysis of the
work of ARI graduates, and it offers a series of recommendations for ARI to
consider as it develops curriculum to meet the needs of rural community leaders
in a fast-changing world. The second
piece – aimed at a more general audience and more anecdotal – is this book, Rural Leaders: The Work and Community Impact of Graduates of
the Asian Rural Institute.
|  Bev with the Yabi Mbot Farmers Group in Cameroon 
Steven and ARI graduate Moses talking with children at the Kanita Education Center in Uganda
Steven and Bev with Indonesian ARI graduates and local farmers
Page photos from Rural Leaders
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