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Goshen College

Musoma [part 2]

March 24, 2017

Nat and Grant are working just outside Musoma.

Grant lives in Nyabange and works at VI Agroforestry in nearby Bweri.  At VI they raise all manner of vegetables, and grow demonstration plots showing interplanting of complimentary plants for pest control and/or increased income generation in small spaces. Grant has been working hard–spending many day hoeing with co-workers.

Grant and his host family in Nyabange
With VI-Agro colleagues in the papaya field
Among peppers
Papayas starting to fruit out
Kitchen guardian
The banana vanilla bean complimentary plot

Nat‘s assignment is at the Lake Victoria Disability Centre (LVDC) in Nyabange. The center offers training and rehabilitation services for folks with a variety of disabilities.  They also have a secondary (boarding) school and a school to train mining technicians.

Nat has been working in the woodshop.  He has a number of deaf colleagues there and has been learning Kiswahili Sign Language.  The head of the LVDC is Dennis Maina, and he is also Nat’s host father.

Nat and Dennis at LVDC
Nat with coworkers in the woodshop
A stool and table for making chapatis that they made for the kitchen staff
Small prototype of a chair design
On the LVDC campus
Nat and Dennis at home
5 minutes later a storm blew up, and it soon began to hail
Nat with host parents and dada Rebecca