- The rainy season arrived and is in full force. It rains 3-4 days a week from 3pm til late. This has made my shoes muddy, travel slow, and fields happy.
- World Vision assigned me my own truck and driver, which has significantly increase my impact here.
- I have taken on an agro-business project aimed at selling goat milk in my community. I am helping 2 families raise a European variety of milk goats (Saaen goats) and once they are in production we will work on selling the milk in town
- I have also been working with 2 adult farmer associations helping them establish conservation agriculture demonstration fields in their communities, Nlucotxi e 25 de Junho Mahuline.
- My work with Junior Farmer programs continues.
- I went down to Maputo for a Peace Corps conference right before Christmas, but combined that with a visit to my old Peace Corps site in Chibuto, Gaza Province.
- Carolyn came and visited here for 3 weeks over Christmas and New Years. We spent some time in Maputo, Christmas in Alto Molocue, and then New Years up at the port town of Nacala, Nampula Province where we sat very comfortably on the beach for 4 days. That was probably the best part of 2010. 2011 entered with our hotel room being completely robbed, but that is story without bullet points.
- Next week I, and another volunteer, will be training World Vision staff from around the province of Zambezia on initiating and running Junior Farmer groups in their areas.
- I am also in the process of hiring 2-3 field extensionists to take over the projects I have begun in Alto Molocue.
I just posted a bunch of photos from these past few months. Hope all ya’lls’ holidays went well.
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