Known for helping create the Famine Early Warning System during a career focused on Sub-Saharan Africa with the U.S. Agency for International Development from 1964 to 1994, Dr. Frederick E. Gilbert retired from the board of AFRECS on June 12.
After his retiring from USAID, Gilbert consulted on economic development planning, program management, and evaluation in Africa. To explain his persistent engagement with the Sudans, he said, “I was bitten by the Sudan bug.”
The AFRECS Board responded:
“BECAUSE Frederick E. Gilbert, called Fritz, in 2004 conceived the idea of gathering scattered American friends of the Episcopal Church of Sudan, then baptized us with the name AFRECS, scrupulously guarded our treasury (demanding original receipts), and knew when it was timely to challenge a bishop or even an Executive Director,
On this 12th day of June 2025 A.D., the Board of AFRECS unanimously thanks God for the gifts Fritz has shared with us for 21 years and declares him to be a jolly good companion on the Way.”