THE LINK: OCTOBER 2023 26 Photos Courtesy Jeff Baker Jeff Baker and his team spent two weeks in Kigusa, about four hours’ drive west of Rwanda’s capital, Kigali. Alaskan Jeff Baker volunteers to help Bridges to Prosperity It’s a long way from Alaska to Rwanda. But Jeff Baker, Senior Vice President at Michael Baker International, was there this spring with nine other Michael Baker employees, all volunteers, putting their skills in engineering and project management to work in building a safe and sturdy foot bridge connecting two villages. It was a project of Bridges to Prosperity, a Colorado-based nonprofit that builds badly needed pedestrian trail bridges in third world developing nations. These Bridges to Prosperity projects give local people access to schools, health care and markets for locally-grown goods. Until this bridge was built, people had to find ways to pick their way across a river normally 20 feet wide but sometimes impassible during the rainy seasons. Alliance member Michael Baker International is a corporate sponsor for Bridges to Prosperity and takes on one project a year, Baker said. Michael Baker solicits a volunteer team, and Jeff Baker in Anchorage was one of 10 chosen. He was also picked Lending his experience, from Alaska to Rwanda
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