Jan 25 2018

25.01.2018 – Luca

Today we woke up at our usual time and hopped on the bus to the University, I think we’ve all perfected our little morning routine now, up and out at 8:45am, though not always on the dot… Haha. As always, breakfast was amazing. I think breakfast has easily become my most favourite meal of the day, though I am not sure I will keep it up back in England as I’m certainly not as good of a chef! After breakfast, we joined the rest of our CM4K partners in class, and soon set off for our third day of fieldwork. Like the second, all went smoothly. We visited three places today, which I have listed below:

Osatia Seventh Day Adventist Church: Osatia S.D.A Church was founded in 1982, and holds a service every Saturday. There are currently 70 members of the Church, and 6 neighbouring communities attend service: Hollo A, Hollo B, Central, Mlimani, Town A, and Wang Chieng.

Unlike before where we’d driven exactly to the location, we walked some of the way to the church today. Just outside of the church entrance there was an avocado tree, I so badly wanted to climb it and pick some fresh, ripe avocados. They looked delicious, but I resisted, haha. After we gathered our content, we headed back to the bus to travel to our second location.

Lang’o Arek Mixed Secondary School: Lang’o Arek Mixed Secondary School project was founded in 2008. The school currently hosts 120 students, and 10 teachers, 3 of those being government employees.

Once again like the previous location, again we had to walk part way – although this walk wasn’t as relaxing as the first! It was up a ginormous hill! I am quite used to hills, as Brighton is probably one of the hilliest places I’ve ever lived, but I’ve had a few weeks off from walking up hills so my legs were unprepared. However, when we reached the top there was the most beautiful view of landscapes stretching to the sky! We all took a moment to catch our break, and admire the view. 😊

Cham gi Wadu Market: The Cham gi Wadu Open Market takes place every week at the Cham gi Wadu Shopping Centre. Traders of different communities come together to share their wares, selling items such as: fresh fruit and vegetables, fish, fabrics, clothes, shoes, animals (cattle, poultry) and various amenities. The market attracts both Luo and Kisi communities, as in the Luo’s language, ‘Cham gi Wadu’ means ‘share with your neighbour’.

We had to return to the shopping centre as the shots we originally took on Monday looked too derelict. We thought that on market day, it’d be busier and represent the community better, so we returned to retake the photo on market day. It was also a great experience to see the market first hand, though unfortunately it started to rain so we had to speed back to the bus.

Once we arrived back at the university, we started to edit our content. If I am being truthful, I am worried that we do not have enough editing time. I am not so worried about myself and the photography group, but video and audio are incredibly time consuming – and though we have editing time when we arrive back from the locations, everyone is feeling very tired and it can be difficult to focus. I shall bring this up with Peter when I get the chance, and see what he suggests. I do not want quality to be compromised, but with the time constraints I’m worried it might be. For now though, we’re off for some dinner! I hope everyone has a wonderful evening, talk soon!

Luca. 😊

Jan 25 2018

A trek and a half…

Today we did a little bit of walking to reach the destinations of our locations. I was so thankful for them as we are usually going on the bus to the locations, get off and back on once all you’ve done is and onto your next destination. I t was nice walking through the paths and seeing the goats and cows and I was thankful to just explore.

We visited Lang’o Are Mixed Secondary School. Reaching this school was a task as we had to climb up a steep hill but thank god I had trainers on I raced up that hill. I quickly regretted it as I had to wait for about 10 mins to catch my breath when I reached the top of the hill. I don’t know how the students do it every day but it certainly made me miss the bus dropping us right at our location. The school is on top of a hill so capturing a lot of establishing shot was beautiful, however I like to avoid taking panoramic shot of just trees and scenery as it makes it boring when you put it together in a final video. The school didn’t have much there so I improvised and focussed on the students getting their lunch and their day to day lunch duties. It was amazing.

We also visited Osatia church which was in the middle of nowhere it seemed. The church on the inside had a lot to capture however, for a church it had very little and I fully appreciated the job we are doing for this community as it urged me to want more for their church and the community members were ever so proud of their church and it was nice talking to them and knowing how much our radio station will benefit them.

Jan 25 2018

Day 9

We bought some drinks from treat house again last night as we knew we didn’t have fieldwork today so we could stay up a bit later than usual. We all joined together on the veranda to chat and wind down, Sam brought out a book his dad had bought for him called The White Masai (Corrine Hoffman). I don’t think his dad realised that its written a bit like an erotic novel. We amused ourselves for a good half a hour reading passages from the book and joking about if we would have the some experience when we visit the Masai Mara, even Pete joined in saying he was secretly the character Marco. After a few more drinks we decided to bring over some of our British culture to Rongo and do a Pub Quiz. I used the questions again from the one that I did to raise money for CM4K back in October. at some point during this someone mentioned that it would be a good idea to crack open the Kenyan Cane again. About 11:30pm and a dozen or so drinks later we all stumbled off to our rooms to finally hit the sack.

Everyone looked a bit worse for wear today. I felt quite bad as I was quite perky and had a good night’s sleep. Angel and Hafsah had both been ill in the night and Sam Luca and Peter all had stomach cramps. Everyone seems to think that it was a combination of the lunch from yesterday mixed with the alcohol from last night however I still stand by the fact that it’s the meat (trying to convert everyone to vegetarianism) I’m the only one not poorly and the only one who doesn’t eat meat.

Hafsa was too poorly to come to uni so we left her behind at the Pastoral Centre. Breakfast was scrambled egg! I was so happy as it was absolutely delicious! We then went up to the classroom to get on with our individual work. It was an intense day of writing and researching for myself but they had tea, coffee and hot chocolate to keep us going. After lunch I met with peter to discuss what I needed to do with the rest of my time on the project and what would be useful for my dissertation. I have already started collecting emails of people that will be important to contact for opinions and quotes.

Luca went home at lunch, were all dropping like flies! After lunch was much of the same work wise. We had an early dinner at 5 most people barely touched their food and then we returned to the pastoral centre (with small plates for Luca and Hafsa). It was only 6pm by the time we got back but everyone retired to their rooms straight away. I read a good chunk of Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes) I only have about 30 pages left but I want to delay finish reading it for as long as possible but its such a good book! I then started watching Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) I think I got about an hour into it and then fell asleep. I’ve watched a few different films since being here including Moana (2016), Ratatouille (2007) and Dr Strange (2016).

Jan 25 2018

23rd Tuesday 2018

I’m worrying too much about my first blog because its the beginning but i hope you wont truth bomb me if its not mind blowing haha… So yes we set off to cham gi wadu to share ideas with different ages in the community inclusive of students,health workers,traders and the community members.

We majored on how the community would benefit from the community radio that would be established and yes these guys were undoubtedly in it .For in stance ,the health workers said that they had health programmes that the community should be aware of and this would be easier if aired through the radio .

So i was in the photography group thanks to you Hafsah,Japhet and Geoffrey get along with camera work i took several shots with your help….. yeaap it was my first time and you did not tire from assisting me out however dumb it seemed haha

Jan 25 2018

CM4K empowering communities

It’s my third year now as a CM4K member. So it would be right to say that this first post is long overdue. CM4K has changed much in those three years but one thing has remained constant: the desire to empower communities.

As a kid growing up all I wanted was one day to be in a position to help the poor and the destitute. When our Dean at Rongo University told us in class about CM4K I very much wanted to be a member. Being a member of CM4K has been one of my greatest joys as a university student. I have learnt a lot from Peter Day the founder and director of CM4K, I have learnt from my fellow students at Rongo University and students from University of Brighton. It was Lewis and Elle from University of Brighton (CM4K 2016) who taught me how to use a digital camera to make professional photographs. It is Japheth (CM4K 2016-) who showed me the beauty of being a photographer. And yesterday Hafsa (CM4K 2018) taught me how to manually create wonderful images. Everyday and every year I learn something new from my colleagues and am always grateful.

But perhaps the best lessons have come from Peter Day. He showed us while helping is noble, empowering is divine. He has made me realise that everyone has the power and ability to change and impact a community positively. Yesterday I almost teared of joy when we visited Omweri Mixed Secondary School. A young girl told us – Japheth and I – that she dreams of being a journalist. I showed her briefly how to use the digital camera and asked her if she would like to take pictures of the other students. She did not only take some of the most beautiful images I have ever seen but she also started teaching the other students how to use the digital camera. I looked at Japheth and he was grinning. We were amazed how the students were so keen to learn and teach others.

From 2017 CM4K has embarked on a journey to set up a radio station in a place called Cham Gi Wadu. The community radio is one of the ways CM4K wants to empower the local community. Not only will it be a way of creating effective communication for Pamela Wesonga who heads over 150 women group, it will nurture the aspiring journalists from Omweri Secondary School and mostly importantly it will be a tool for bringing social justice. Cham Gi Wadu is a sleepy village with considerable amounts of resources which most community members seem unaware of. A radio station will be important in providing information and make the community discover new ways of uplifting their lives.

I aim to bring you stories and images from Cham Gi Wadu and any other project CM4K is taking with the aim of empowering communities and sharing knowledge. I promise it won’t be three years before you hear from me again😉.
Geoffrey.

Jan 25 2018

Out and About in the Community 3

Last night I had a much better sleep, except for the fact that I woke up with 7 mosquito bites on my index and middle fingers on my left hand – they have not stopped itching, it’s so irritating! At least everything else is back to normal I guess. We were picked up at our usual time of 8:45am and when we arrived at the university, the cooks had outdone themselves again! Eggy bread for two days in a row – what a luxury! Unfortunately, the Tommy K had run out and we forgot to bring our own one, but it was still delicious!

Today was another day where we had to do fieldwork and, in all honesty, I was not up for it. Although no longer poorly, I was still feeling extremely drained from yesterday’s illness. However, I knew that this work needed to be done as we are doing good for the community, so I jumped on the bus and off we went. We arrived at the Cham Gi Wadu shopping centre as there was to be a market in the adjacent field. I think the original plan was to capture footage and photos for the asset maps here first, however the market wasn’t quite up and running so we decided to move on.

Our first proper location that we filmed was the Osatia S.D.A church. The road leading up to the church was narrow and bumpy, so we had to abandon Biatuk and the bus and walk the rest of the way. It was about 1km, so not too far. The bus normally pulls up outside the locations, so it was nice to walk somewhere for a change, stretch my legs and experience the peace and tranquillity of the Kenyan countryside. It was not too long before we arrived, and the church was unlocked for us to see inside. It was cool inside, and also very dark as the windows did not seem to let much light in. There were rows of wooden pews, much like those we would see in England. Everyone stepped in to the church building so that Angel, May and Kassim could take an establishing shot of the front without us being in there. Isabelle then told us that the church elders were keen for us to interview them. Our original plan was to set up and conduct the interview inside, but it was far too gloomy which would have produced very noisy footage. So, we took it outside, they did not speak much English so Mac done the majority of translating for us. I think that it will be good to have both the Lua and Swahili languages in the documentary as highlights how rural this area actually is. The problem for me is that I don’t speak either so when it comes to editing I won’t know what is being said. The other people in my group will be able to translate the Swahili for me, so I’ll just have to find someone that can speak Lua – if Wendy is free I’ll probably ask her.

Our second visit was Lang’O Arek Mixed Secondary School. Once again, the bus had to drop us off on the road and we had to walk up to the school. When I say up, I really mean UP as it was situated at the top of a tall, steep hill! I made my way up it, there were a few moans from the others and when we reached the top a few people had to have a little lay down to catch their breath and recover. The view was a sight to behold, I could see for miles in every direction that I looked – even the curvature of the Earth was visible! I was so amazed by it that I almost forgot that we were at a school. I was brought back down to Earth by the children coming out to collect their lunch. We all then went to a classroom at the back of the school where we interviewed one of the teachers, Calvine – I’m not 100% sure of the spelling, sorry! He spoke passionately about how the Community Radio Station in Cham Gi Wadu would benefit both the students and the school – and even asked if there was a chance he could get a job there! The interview was longer than most that we have done so far, but when it finished we bode farewell and made our way back down the hill. I thought walking up the hill was difficult, but it turns out going back down was even more so! There was no distinguished path so many stones came loose underfoot, making it very slippery as we tried to walk down.

Eventually (and without any falls) we made it back to the bus, and drove back towards the market. There was one blip however, as there was a large ditch in the middle of the road, and the bus was too heavy with all of us on it to go over. So, we all jumped off and Biatuk navigated his way over it – what a great man he is! We all climbed back on and were soon at Cham Gi Wadu market. There was such an array of goods, from fish to vegetables to majestic cloths and fabrics, all laying out on plastic tarpaulin sheets. We got many shots of all of the stalls, but unfortunately our time there was cut short as there was a storm heading our way and everyone quickly packed up and headed off to find some shelter. I made my way back to the bus, as I was wearing a white t-shirt which was rapidly turning orange with all of the dust that the wind was picking up. It meant that I unfortunately missed a number of impromptu interviews that Aron conducted with a few of the locals – I’ve watched them back now and they are awesome! After about 20 minutes everyone piled back on to the bus. Katie was stung by a bee in the process, but shook it off like it was nothing! Maybe I need to stop whining about my fingers…

Anyway, we drove back to the university where we would spend the rest of the afternoon looking over our footage and editing. The problem was, nobody had editing software on their laptops! By the time Andres had kindly transferred Adobe Premiere Pro on to Mercie’s laptop, it was time for dinner. I did not however, let this time go to waste as I knew that it would come back and bite me in the future. Instead, we wrote up a plan for the documentary so that we knew what we wanted it to look like, and created a schedule so we knew what we had to do on each day to complete it. I’ll post the document on either the online conversation board or my personal blog – hopefully we will be able to stick to it and everything will run smoothly!

Anyway, I’m off to bed now. Peter has just told us that the plan for tomorrow has changed and we are no longer going out in to the community, but instead using the whole day for editing as he feels that we won’t have enough time to get everything completed. I agree that we need this extra day, but it doesn’t hide my disappointment for not returning to the Kopala Spring Water Project as it was such a great initiative, the members were so friendly and it was in such a beautiful location.

Goodnight!

Sam 🙂

Jan 25 2018

24.01.2018 – Luca

Hello, hello, hello!

Today’s post may be a bit brief, but hopefully it’ll give you chance to rest your poor eyes from all of my ramblings! Equally, this is only the beginning so that presumption could change, we’ll see. 😛

I think I’ll start with the evening of the 23^rd, the night after our second day of field work. To reward ourselves from all our hard work, we collectively agreed we’d have a nice relaxing evening celebrating our two days of fieldwork. I really had so much fun! We picked up some drinks on the way back from University after dinner from our favourite spot, The Treat House, and then returned to the accommodation. This was the first night we’d arrived back before 7pm, so it was nice to have additional time to kick our feet up. Whilst we had our drinks, we played Katie’s CM4K pub quiz. It was so fun, I had also predicted the order of winners would be our seating positions, and I was funnily right, haha! I am truly awful at quizzes, but got 21 out of 50 odd questions right (probably more, but I’ll say less to make myself feel better, haha). The winner, Angel, got 30, so I did far better than I’d expected and she had played before. Sam followed with 29, and Hafsah with 14. Originally when counting the points, Hafsah thought she only had 13, with 12 points from the Logo Round, and the other point from a question where the answer was Nairobi – which really cracked us! We laughed so hard Peter heard us from his room and through his earplugs. Nairobi is where our plane landed in Kenya, so we’d have been shocked if anyone got that question wrong! After that, we played some silly games and then all went to bed.

The plan for the following day was to spend it at the University editing the content we’d gathered from our two days of fieldwork. I had done the majority of mine the previous day, so I spent the majority of my time helping organise content into folders for one of my classmates who was unfortunately feeling poorly (get well soon, H). I also spent some time catching up on the discussion board and responding to posts, it felt good to be up to date. Just before lunch at around 2, I ended up coming back to the accommodation as I was feeling a bit poorly myself, I am very British and have sunburn, so I think I just needed some additional rest time. I got back and did some washing before then sleeping for around 4 hours. A bug got into my room though and scared the absolute life out of me (yes, I screamed, haha). I wouldn’t mind, but the type of insect it is has been haunting our group our entire trip here! I think it got into my room for revenge, and it worked. I’m currently hiding in my bed under my net, still alert for its return… Whatever species it is, I hope we can be civil and it’ll leave me alone now, please. 😛

Oh, and how could I forget to mention that before all of this once again we had an amazing breakfast! I had eggy bread and sausages, yum! We’d been fantasising on the bus the entire way to University about fry ups, and we were all so excited to have eggy bread! I think Pete was amused that we called it that, as he knew it as something different. Isn’t it funny how language changes between generations? It never fails to amuse me. 😛

Though I spent a lot of time resting, I did get all of the work I had planned to do done, and then some. In addition to my two blog posts about the fieldwork (the first 624 words, and the second 588) I wrote an additional 1,254-word critical reflection of how both days had gone! For anyone who knows me, you’ll know I am a very slow typer and that it takes me a while to write things out, so I’m proud that I had so much to say and got it done in just a short few hours. Goodness knows what I’ll put in my assignment for this module if I keep writing at this pace! After writing, my classmates were kind enough to bring me some fruit on their return which I ate for dinner as I am still feeling a bit poorly, and now I am writing this! However, it is getting on so I’m probably going to dim the lights and try to rest some more with a film I’ve been meaning to watch for ages called, My Week With Marylin. Here’s hoping it’s a good one! Have a great night, and as I silently expected… This blog post hasn’t been brief at all, whoops! Goodnight everyone!

Luca. 😊

Jan 25 2018

Day 7 Revisions to Fieldwork

After yesterday’s critical reflections and mulling it over during the night I decided we needed a team talk. The Brighton students had asked if they could get together in groups to discuss roles so that there was a fairer distribution of the recording and those not so technically advanced as others had a chance to learn rather than fade into the background. This struck me as a good idea so over breakfast I spoke with Jerry and Isobel and we decided to leave a little later than we had originally planned so our reflections could be aired with everyone and hear their thoughts.

Back in class I spoke with everyone (Jerry & Isobel included) taking care to state that on the whole and certainly in terms of community engagement and participatory community media practice, I was very happy and what was to follow was by no means an admonishment. I reminded everyone that we were trialling/piloting a community communications asset mapping exercise and that this was our main purpose during this fieldtrip. I know Jerry is starting to work with Isobel, and I am advising them, on developing community media modules for their curriculum. It is therefore important that the students are capable of continuing the community asset mapping when we have left so there will be elements of revision and fine tuning as we progress. I urged everyone to keep this all in mind and not to allow themselves to get carried away with the opportunity of engaging in creative media practice – although I have factored in an element of this into the work (perhaps I should have focussed solely on the research element but I don’t think their learning would have been quite so enjoyable).

I sent the students away for the 30 minutes in their groups so they could speak openly with each other. A funny thing on this note – the Brighton students who had been articulate, considered and reflective when speaking to me the night before suddenly went silent when I asked them if I had covered everything we discussed. It is interesting that despite the encouragement of their active engagement, at times there is still a sense of ‘them and us’ in their minds. I spoke to them about this later and it turned out that they didn’t want the Kenyan students to think they were “dropping them in it”. This presents an interesting challenge because one of the main components of CM4K’s PEARLS (Partnership Education: Action Research & Learning Scenarios) approach is open and honest dialogue.

Whilst the students were in their groups I also spoke with Isobel and Jerry to see if it wasn’t possible to find a compromise about the time consuming formal protocols that had caused so many delays and put us way behind in our schedule. They agreed and said they would speak with our community contacts so they would explain to our hosts at each community asset stop. We left as soon as the students were ready. We were all soon aware once in the field that our discussions had been useful as this fieldtrip session ran so much more smoothly and everyone, as far as I could see, was sticking to their roles and working hard whilst enjoying themselves. We went back to Cham gi Wadu shopping centre for the photos we missed yesterday (more on this in tomorrow’s blog); we visited the Ongo medical centre and dispensary, the neighbouring primary school as well as the 7^th Day Adventist Church next door; we then headed back to visit our old friends at Kitere Primary where we met the Chief and were asked to briefly address a parents meeting. They seemed pleased to meet us and applauded the idea of a community radio station although one vocal man seemed to think we were bringing dinner and seemed upset that we weren’t ;-).

From Kitere, which is just down the road from Campus, it was back to INFOCOMS to start sorting through our data. For some reason we were served packed lunch, which they called snacks, that they had been carrying with us on the really hot bus. I declined as there were more community members than expected and I really wasn’t hungry. No sooner was that cleared away than it was announced that lunch was ready. We looked horrified! Without causing offense we were able to convince them to keep lunch over for an early dinner, which had an added bonus for the catering staff that they could have an easy afternoon. During the afternoon one of the Kenyan students shared one of her 2 remaining samosas with me – big mistake! Those packed lunches were to come back and haunt a few of us the next day.

Jan 24 2018

Wednesday 24/2018:

I woke up at exactly 5:20 am by my trap phone alarm for the morning prayers. I then had to do some washing as some of my clothes were dirty and I could not keep them anymore up to weekend since I am not sure if I will be available for cleaning. At around 8:00 am I was at the school waiting for my colleagues to join me. They walked in one after another ready for the day until 9:30 am when the Brighton University guys arrived.

Being the seventh day of the project, we were to edit the two day work that we had captured on Monday and Tuesday. The University of Brighton students joined us after they had their breakfast but unfortunately Hafsah didn’t make it with them because of illness; I felt my day wouldn’t be complete without a joke and strong exchange of words from my ‘customer’ Hafsah. Quick recovery dear. Back to the business of the day, in my video group, though we didn’t do much of editing but Angelica collected the establishment shots of the places we visited and opted to compile them by the use of iMovie on her laptop.

It was a nice experience to learn the basics of iMovie since it was my first time to work with it though I didn’t find it the best software for editing but may be it’s because I am used to Premier Pro. The work wasn’t done and we expect to complete it tomorrow with the seriousness and commitment it deserves.

I attended a lecture by madam Millicent Atieno at 2:00 pm as guys went for lunch. One will ask what the lecture has to do with this, relax and read my blog up to the end. The course unit is CMM 404, Development Communication and today’s lecture was basically on why the mass media is not appropriate for effective communication. It depends on ones understanding about mass media in this case. Mass media is controlled by elites and it’s commercialized, unlike the rural media that is liberating, indigenous and egalitarian. Some of the features of this rural media that made me see the lecture as a coincidence to what I am doing in the community are; Participatory, Gives a sense of belonging and develops and support cultural identity. A good example of rural media is a community radio station. Now tell me, is what I am doing in this project different from what I learnt today?

We had a short discussion on religion with Sam and Angelica; why do we exist? Sam argued on how he feels it is through evolution that we exist and that there is no Supreme Being that controls everything as my faith and Angel’s tells us. Katie seemed not happy with the topic that he requested us to either shut our mouths up or find another topic of discussion.

Our delicious dinner was served few minutes past 6:00 pm as we experienced a heavy rainfall that none of us expected.

Kassim Mohammed.

Jan 24 2018

Day 8

Fieldwork Day 2:

Today I had some bad news. No Weetabix.

After a disappointing start to the day I had little hope that the rest of the day would be any better. I was proved so wrong.

After breakfast we grouped in the classroom and Peter addressed the issues that we had highlighted last night. We started by having meetings in our individual groups so that the Brighton students could make sure that the Rongo students knew how to operate the equipment properly. It also gave us an opportunity to delegate positions within the groups so that everyone was clear on what their role was and most importantly felt valued within the CM4K project.

Super Market in Cham gi Wadu:

Beginning (Entering from Rongo University):

Long – 34, 36, 8
Lat – 0, -53, -38

End (Leaving towards Ongo Health Centre):

Long – 34, 36, 13
Lat – 0, -53, -39

The shopping centre is used for the community they sell goods like food including fish and have retail shops such as a salon and barbers. There is a hotel and safe places for people to stay. It’s an open market its very busy on weekends. Its used to trade between the communities.

Ongo Health Centre:

Long – 34, 36, 30
Lat – 0, -54, -36

We spoke to Lewis Evens Messe who is a manager at the health centre. They treat roughly 200 patients and have 3-4 in patients. They have antiviral treatment for HIV. The buildings are split into two wards maternity and In-patients. The building opened in 1985 as a dispensary and in 1996 (the year I was born) became a health centre. The telephone number of the centre is 0729303274.

Ongo Primary School:

Long – 34, 36, 28
Lat – 0, -54, -36

We were introduced to the deputy Kennedy Ochieng. He didn’t seem to know a lot about the school he worked at but what we could gather was that the school was opened in the 1980’s, it had roughly 360 students and 8 members of staff. They specialised in mainly academics.

Ongo 7^th day Adventist Church:

Long – 34, 36, 29
Lat – 0, -54, -38

The church was closed but what the locals could tell us was that it was open for a Saturday service every day.

Kitere Primary School:

Long – 34, 36, 20
Lat – 0, -49, -29

The deputy head George Andhamo and senior teacher Madame Rosemary greeted us upon arrival. The chief was also there having a meeting with the community. We were introduced and welcomed and the left to go about the asset mapping work we were meant to do. We found out that there were approximately 650 students and 18 teachers, 5 males and the rest female. They pride themselves on the fact that they are ever expanding and always ready to accept new students.

We got back to the university at 3pm a much more reasonable time than yesterday. Everyone worked so efficiently and I’m so proud of the hard work that everyone put into today. It made everything run so smoothly.