Students Blog While Preparing for Field Visits

The primary project I will be overseeing for Save during the next month, a collaborative pilot between Bangladesh based JOBS, Makerere University, and Save, is starting to pick up speed. Most of the Makerere student led teams will be arriving in Nakasongola on Monday to begin initial consultation with Save beneficiaries. Two teams will be working with our farmer marketing groups and the third will be engaging an ‘out of school’ youth group specializing in gardening.

The impetus behind their work is to start small agro-processing businesses with the farmer groups, while building the capacity of our beneficiaries on post harvest handling, processing and marketing techniques. The Makerere students have already conducted one previous field visit and since then have been testing potential products in Kampala.

During the course of this pilot, the students will be blogging about their experiences. There are three separate blogs: The Kewerimide Marketing Group, the Katugo Marketing Group, and the Irima ‘Out of School’ Youth Marketing Group. I encourage everyone with an interest to check them out!