Into the field – on the road with a couple of CHW’s and a video crew
Thursday was another day in the field only this time with two of the local CHW’s, Cricket and Shaquil from the UNDP and a videographer and photographer working on a weather station project that is connected to the cellphone communications system that was the original topic of the “Design Jam” that Design in Kind put together at Pratt close to a year ago. The cellphones are carried by the CHWs (signal strength is a non issue in Uganda for some reason) who will be able to call in and enter data, call for an ambulance and check in with the village doctors. We visited two farmers and two households. This family had 12 members, the grandmother, her daughter and 8 children and the daughter’s husband who we didn’t meet. The house was very remotely located at the end of a dirt path. They had recently built a corn crib and a new latrine. When we arrived the women were shelling G-nuts and the kids were hanging around outside with the youngest daughter, no more than eight months old plunked down in the front yard.
