Dan and Elizabeth Turk

Dan and Elizabeth serve with the Church of Jesus Christ in Madagascar (FJKM). They began service with FJKM in 1996 and raised their children Robert and Frances in Madagascar.

Elizabeth is advisor to FJKM’s health program and a member of the technical team of FJKM’s National HIV/AIDS and Epidemic Diseases Committee (KPMSV). The health program has a series of dispensaries where doctors and nurses treat common illnesses like malaria, measles and respiratory tract infections. She helps the KPMSV team conduct HIV testing at FJKM events and teach seminary students how to prevent HIV infection and relate to people who are infected. She also works with FJKM in various education projects.

Dan is advisor to FJKM’s Fruits, Vegetables, and Environmental Education Program (FVEE). He and his colleagues help farmers grow fruits like mangos, mangosteens and tangerines to get on paths out of poverty. The FVEE teaches seminary students how to grow fruits and vegetables and works to help the FJKM protect Madagascar’s amazing biodiversity. Dan and colleagues have established permanent fruit tree nurseries and a training center called the Mango Palace. They serve as advisors to the Ranomafana Arboretum. Dan teaches Horticulture, Arboriculture and Vegetative Propagation at the FJKM University at Moramanga. Together, Dan and Elizabeth support the FJKM’s efforts in education and safe drinking water in the far south of Madagascar.

Elizabeth has a Master’s in Public Health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Bachelor’s degrees in Nursing and Psychology from Indiana Wesley University and Duke University, respectively. Dan has a Ph.D. in Forestry from North Carolina State University, a Master’s in Agronomy and Soil Science from the University of Hawai’i at Manoa and an undergraduate degree in Biology from Davidson College.

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TO DAN AND ELIZABETH’S SUPPORT:

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