Colleen and I arrived in Kenya, only a few hours late, and a few bags short. We spent only a day in Nairobi before heading out to Nyeri area where we would set up home for the next 4 weeks. After a minor collision with a matatu on the road out of Nairobi, we arrived in Mukerwe-ini a mere 5 hours behind schedule, but have had a pretty good run of luck since our arrival.
Our daily schedule has mainly consisted of interviewing between six and eight farmers, in two teams. The roads and terrain have made logistics a challenge, but the local research assistant here has an uncanny knack of knowing where every farmer lives, and about how long they have been members of the Wakulima Dairy Ltd. We end the interview with a deworming of their cows, and head off to the next farm. Since there is a 24 hour recall as part of this survey, there is usually a bunch of laughter when we ask them to get out their pots and pans so we can measure them (to determine recipe yields). It will be interesting to see how correlations work out – to see if high milk production and long term membership is able to penetrate to the level of the families own nutrition.
More to come!
~Lisa
Wukerwe-ini, Kenya
2009
August 19th, 2009
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