Wednesday May 27 2009 Working at the Garden

Justin and I started working at the garden on Monday and so far it has been interesting to see the work the women are doing there and how everything is run. There was a meeting that we got to sit in on today about projects and events they have planned for the future and what they hope to accomplish at the garden. We also met a peacecorps volunteer, Tammy, who is working at the garden. It’s nice to have another person around to understand the experiences that we are going through and the frustrations we have. So far at the garden went haven’t been introduced to any engineering related work, we have just been working on the fencing around the garden and helping them measure out individual plots. Hopefully we will be able to start something more engineering related soon. We did find out in the meeting today about different projects we could work on and the most interesting one I heard about was working with an NGO called Gammol. They deal with water pumps and boreholes in various small communities around Sanyang so hopefully we get a chance to find out more about that organization and work with them when we are back in Sanyang at the end of the trip.