Oh my gawsh! Broadband!!!
Hello y'all!
I am currently in Phumula guesthouse, my new temporary residence for the week and it has broadband!! Proper internet. I'm on the Moot pages already downloading all the podcasts that used to take me over an hour to do. Now it estimates almost 30 minutes for 3! I can't express my excitement. Seriously. So excited!! This means I can properly celebrate Easter. :o)
So the training starts tomorrow and we have sandwiches for 50 people to paste and prepare. I think it's going to be really good if we can get the little things sorted. (Thanks Karina! :ox) We went to a meeting this morning with the Bucopo, which is like a community leaders meeting. Very powerful. They informed us that the 45 people we had budgeted for and catered for would be more like 120. We had to let them down gently. Now it seems the budget will have to stretch to 55. Not sure how that will happen, but we think that many will not turn up. It's a bit of a negotiation as to get to the active community workers, we also have to train the aging, partially sighted, not active ones who are always up for a free lunch. It's difficult but we have to take the rough with the smooth.
The machine was not fixed in the end and the jolly man who was slightly more expensive got a bit more jolly as we rocked up and asked him to print 4500 booklets, 4500 pre and post tests and 32 A3 laminates for teaching. A very jolly man. He has printed 160 for us at the moment and will do the rest in the next few weeks. That suits me well as out stock room would not be able to hold all the booklets we have coming. Each participant gets a plastic envelope with an A5 exercise book, an A5 work tool, a pen and a tape for measuring Mid Upper Arm Circumference (MUAC). The hope is that with these goodies and the inspiration and information they get from us, we can prevent malnutrition before it even develops and catch the others in the early stages. It's an aspiration!! People at the Bucopo seemed very enthusiastic, until we realised they thought we were going to roll in on a truck full of maize like a carnival float, flinging emalangeni at happy children. We thought it probably best to correct this view.
Oh well, at least our approach is sustainable, even if it is a little less carnival like.
I am currently in Phumula guesthouse, my new temporary residence for the week and it has broadband!! Proper internet. I'm on the Moot pages already downloading all the podcasts that used to take me over an hour to do. Now it estimates almost 30 minutes for 3! I can't express my excitement. Seriously. So excited!! This means I can properly celebrate Easter. :o)
So the training starts tomorrow and we have sandwiches for 50 people to paste and prepare. I think it's going to be really good if we can get the little things sorted. (Thanks Karina! :ox) We went to a meeting this morning with the Bucopo, which is like a community leaders meeting. Very powerful. They informed us that the 45 people we had budgeted for and catered for would be more like 120. We had to let them down gently. Now it seems the budget will have to stretch to 55. Not sure how that will happen, but we think that many will not turn up. It's a bit of a negotiation as to get to the active community workers, we also have to train the aging, partially sighted, not active ones who are always up for a free lunch. It's difficult but we have to take the rough with the smooth.
The machine was not fixed in the end and the jolly man who was slightly more expensive got a bit more jolly as we rocked up and asked him to print 4500 booklets, 4500 pre and post tests and 32 A3 laminates for teaching. A very jolly man. He has printed 160 for us at the moment and will do the rest in the next few weeks. That suits me well as out stock room would not be able to hold all the booklets we have coming. Each participant gets a plastic envelope with an A5 exercise book, an A5 work tool, a pen and a tape for measuring Mid Upper Arm Circumference (MUAC). The hope is that with these goodies and the inspiration and information they get from us, we can prevent malnutrition before it even develops and catch the others in the early stages. It's an aspiration!! People at the Bucopo seemed very enthusiastic, until we realised they thought we were going to roll in on a truck full of maize like a carnival float, flinging emalangeni at happy children. We thought it probably best to correct this view.
Oh well, at least our approach is sustainable, even if it is a little less carnival like.
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