He spent more than three years working in the Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping (VAM) unit in Rome, mostly in survey design and analysis for measuring levels of food insecurity and malnutrition in West Africa (Sierra Leone, Liberia and Ghana), Southern Africa (Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique and Madagascar), Eastern Africa (Eritrea) and Central Asia (Tajikistan and Azerbaijan). He also spent time in Afghanistan and was part of the first assessment team, along with the CDC in Darfur in 2004.
Fiji RPCV Eric Kenefick lives in Johannesburg, South Africa, and works for the World Food Programme's Regional Bureau for eastern, central and southern Africa, which supports WFP operations in 19 countries in the region
Founders Day 2009
CONWAY, Ark. (Sept. 30, 2009) – Hendrix College will award Odyssey Medals to seven alumni whose life achievements exemplify "Your Hendrix Odyssey" during a special ceremony as part of the college's annual Founders Day Oct. 22. The recipients will be honored during an 11:10 a.m. Convocation in Staples Auditorium on the Hendrix campus.
Winners include:
* Sheri Bylander '85 for Artistic Creativity
* Doug Blackmon '86 for Global Awareness
* Dr. William H. Fox '60 for Professional and Leadership Development
* Eric Kenefick '84 for Service to the World
* Dr. C. Michael Crowder '82 for Research
* Martha Jane Murray '77 for Special Projects
* Bryce Williams Reveley '66 for Special Projects (Awarded in 2008-09)
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Eric Kenefick lives in Johannesburg, South Africa, and works for the World Food Programme's Regional Bureau for eastern, central and southern Africa, which supports WFP operations in 19 countries in the region as well as working with other United Nations agencies and governments at national and regional levels. Upon graduation from Hendrix, he was a high school biology and chemistry teacher in Fiji as a Peace Corps volunteer before returning to Arkansas in March 1993 when he worked as a Youth and Programme Director at Trinity United Methodist Church.
During that time, he worked with a group to establish the Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCV) group for Central Arkansas. He later went to Cambodia to work with UNICEF on preparing the National Nutrition Investment Strategy and continued to do consulting work with UNICEF and the WFP in Cambodia (including 4 months doing a refugee study in Bangladesh) until late 2000 when he moved back to the U.S. He took consulting jobs with WFP and the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Myanmar, Nepal and Cambodia until moving to Rome in 2002 to work full time with WFP in their headquarters.
He spent more than three years working in the Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping (VAM) unit in Rome, mostly in survey design and analysis for measuring levels of food insecurity and malnutrition in West Africa (Sierra Leone, Liberia and Ghana), Southern Africa (Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique and Madagascar), Eastern Africa (Eritrea) and Central Asia (Tajikistan and Azerbaijan). He also spent time in Afghanistan and was part of the first assessment team, along with the CDC in Darfur in 2004.
