ECHO

Our second field trip was to ECHO (Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization). Before Colloquium class, I didn't know anything about this organization! We got to walk around and were educated about all the agricultural issues around the world, and solutions that ECHO has made so far to try and help world hunger. I think one main thing that stuck with me from my trip was the "miracle fruit". I wasn't able to taste it first hand, but what it does is when you taste just a tiny bit of it, it makes everything else that you eat sweet. We were even informed that even if you were to eat a lemon right after, you would STILL not have the sour taste of what a lemon should taste like, and rather it would taste sweet. A second thing that I found amazing was a plant called Moringa. The Moringa Tree has seven times the Vitamin C of oranges, four times the calcium of milk, three times the potassium of bananas, and twice the protein of yogurt! Moringa can even be used for water purification! Going to ECHO really opened my eyes and I enjoyed every minute of being there, it was quite an experience!