Hey again, everyone. Here are some photos from the work part of my service. I know -- it probably surprises you to learn that I don't just travel to exotic locales and look at beautiful mountains.
These three are from the accounting class that I taught. It consisted of five sessions, drawn from a text on accounting for cooperatives produced by Oxfam. Our classroom was a little open-air attachment to the local preschool for orphans and vulnerable children. These cement block buildings, also used for community meetings, were built by the government and are called Neighborhood Care Points.
This is one of my counterparts, Ncobile, and her dog Spider. Remember him? She helped the little runt survive with antibiotics.
After Ncobile and I attended a permaculture training, we brought a compost video back to the support group. The women made their own compost heap last week. They plan to use it for a garden they're starting to grow fruits and vegetables for orphans and vulnerable children in the community.
Final compost product! We put thorn branches around it to try to keep cows and donkeys from eating it. We do appreciate the cows, though, because they provided dung a-plenty for the compost heap. We'll turn the heap this weekend, and it should be ready for use in six to eight weeks. Here's hoping we've figured out how to fence in the garden area by then.
The women also created a composting song. I'll attempt to post the video at some point, but I'm not optimistic. I rarely have Internet good enough to do such things.
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