I'M GOING TO BE BUSY!
I leave here at 0530 tomorrow to fly to Dire Dawa. I am visiting HCS (Hararghe Diocese Catholic Secretariat), a CAFOD/Trocaire partner and will be looked after by Belayneh Belete. They are looking at ways to build on the ability of many of their local farmers to grow a wider range of crops by identifying new market opportunities. They are working on pilot projects for tomatoes and milk. If successful this develops even greater income sustainability than that which I saw last time in Adua. My role is to test their ideas against basic marketing practice (something they are not familiar with – but think I am!). From my preparation I can see that they have great ideas but they need underpinning by questioning some of their assumptions – so I think I might be of help. I expect to meet lots of local people as well as spending time with Belayneh and his colleagues.
I return here late Friday, with a free Saturday (at the moment!). On Sunday I fly to Mekelle (Tigray capital) to be part of the team learning the lessons from the watershed projects that I saw last November. I am not going back to Adua, but will visit the other half of the project near to Mekelle. This means I will only meet my former REST host, Merid, briefly. However I expect to see lots more evidence of the life changes this project has achieved. Whilst in Mekelle I will also meet up with the Daughters of Charity, whose work I saw in Alitena last time. One task I have is to deliver to them 20 football shirts I have brought with me - a gift from a school in Nottingham. I am in Mekelle until late Friday 11th, returning then to Addis before flying home on Sunday 13th.
This is very different from last time when I was looking, learning and building stories for talks and media coverage. Actually I’m doing just that again – but this time also working with the CAFOD/Trocaire team and their partners to help them achieve even more in the future.
I doubt I’ll be bored!
I’m not sure what internet capabilities there are in Dire Dawa, so my next few days update may not be published until Saturday.
I return here late Friday, with a free Saturday (at the moment!). On Sunday I fly to Mekelle (Tigray capital) to be part of the team learning the lessons from the watershed projects that I saw last November. I am not going back to Adua, but will visit the other half of the project near to Mekelle. This means I will only meet my former REST host, Merid, briefly. However I expect to see lots more evidence of the life changes this project has achieved. Whilst in Mekelle I will also meet up with the Daughters of Charity, whose work I saw in Alitena last time. One task I have is to deliver to them 20 football shirts I have brought with me - a gift from a school in Nottingham. I am in Mekelle until late Friday 11th, returning then to Addis before flying home on Sunday 13th.
This is very different from last time when I was looking, learning and building stories for talks and media coverage. Actually I’m doing just that again – but this time also working with the CAFOD/Trocaire team and their partners to help them achieve even more in the future.
I doubt I’ll be bored!
I’m not sure what internet capabilities there are in Dire Dawa, so my next few days update may not be published until Saturday.
posted by Mike Coote @ 9:41 AM
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