My YTT team. Ronnie, Martin, Kevin, and myself
Learning about budgeting. This photo appeared on the Peace Corps Uganda Facebook page. It’s proof I am here! My t-shirt is a care package gift from my sister: “I might be old but I got to see all the cool bands”
Kevin presents her portion of the Chicken Rearing Action Plan
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My Youth and Adviser used their newly found skills to put together an action plan to raise chickens on the college grounds and sell their eggs. There are some abandoned and isolated class rooms, and one will be renovated to be the chicken coop. All three have experience rearing chickens, so just like with the rice farmers, I don’t have much to contribute on that end. Just like my home stay family, they assumed in the United States chickens are free range everywhere, until I explained the way most are raised in crowded warehouses. We don’t have goats and cattle tethered everywhere either. (Westminster, like other metro cities, recently has allowed for backyard coops.) I will help guide them on their budget, fundraising, and how to keep track of profits to be distributed. If mistakes are made along the way, those are learning experiences. This all starts after their national competition in Kampala in May. They won the Regional, which was referenced in a prior post. I look forward to reporting on this group’s progress.
Interviewing for my 30 second radio spot.
Every Super Bowl, the NFL manufactures thousands of championship t-shirts for each team. The shirts for the losing team are donated to third world countries. This is Annie, Clark’s classmate from Stanley Lake, with a “Championship” Broncos shirt from Super Bowl XLVIII against Seattle. She bought it from a YTT participant.