Technical Training
Half of our 10 weeks of training is supposed to be our technical training. Our group, the SED/ICT group, has 22 people in it. SED/ICT has a very large focus, which means that training is very general. So far we’ve learned a little about: planting gardens, accounting, marketing, cooperative groups, micro-finance, etc. There isn’t much in the way of computers in kitui, so we haven’t done much with that yet. One of our big projects has been to start a garden with our language groups. So far this has involved tilling up the land (as demonstrated by Mark below). Soon we will be planting beans and carrots. Unfortunately we won’t be around to harvest any of our crops, but presumably all of us will be doing this again when we get to our sites. SED/ICT volunteers are not supposed to do much of anything for the first 3 months in order to spend most of their time getting to know the community. With all that free time, growing a garden starts to look like a really good activity. 