It's been a busy time for Guillaume. He's now in Goma and got in contact with Bahizire. They should meet soon to discuss fuel briquettes and the possibility to introduce them in Walungu.
Guillaume prepared training for goat keeping. After Goma, he's going to Bukavu and to Walungu from there. The training will last for 2 days. Hope to get some nice photos of the village and the training :o)
Seed is on its way to Kenya, from where Guiom's friend will send it to Walungu. Guillaume hopes to be there when it arrives, so that he can help with cultivating.
The community looks after goats and hopefully they will get pregnant soon (if they haven't already). We'll have more info when Guillaume gets to Walungu.
* One of the goats is pregnant for some 2 months
* Our new volunteer, vet Chokola (recommended by Trinto), is helping with the training together with Roger
* Claudia Vijge has sent a request for Worldschool students to make a project plan for revolving livestock fund and Guillaume has approved it. I still have no info about if and when they will work on the plan
* Guillaume is trying to recruit some local doctors for water training, and is waiting for their response
* Seed should have arrived to Nairobi, but our contact there still didn't manage to find out where Jean's team left it. I'm also trying to get in contact with her, but she should be now somewhere in rural Kenya...
* Guiom got in contact with Bahizire who is willing to come to Walungu to demonstrate fuel briquettes, but he needs his travel expenses covered - for him and the equipment.
Guillaume is going back to Kinshasa soon, where he'll have internet connection and we'll find out more
There’s a lot going on in Walungu. Guillaume has got back from the visit and sent an update.
* The learning farm has begun and all the families are learning to take care of the goats. Our volunteer, veterinary Chokola, is teaching them together with Roger. They based their trainings on the material from the manuals we got as well as on Guillaume’s training that he prepared on the basis of the training he had with FAO in Kinshasa.
* As I said, they now have 3 goats, 1 male and 2 female. One goat is pregnant and the kid(s) is coming in 2-3 months.
* The community is also involved in building more sheds. Beside the one built last year, there is one more shed built by one of the families.
* FOPAC (Fédération des Producteurs Agricoles du Congo), NGO from DRC which is a partner of AGRITERRA from the Netherlands, is interested to accept Guillaume’s NGO GAILD as their member.
* Guillaume’s friend Edmond helped us to get the seed that Ken has sent this summer, and the community is getting ready to plant it soon. They also grew some tomato during dry season, using irrigation from the river.
* Edmond, who is Master in Public Health and also doing his PhD research in health, is preparing a two days training in hygiene and water borne diseases in October. He’s native and can teach the community in their own language. He needs our help to design the training.
The community and the volunteers have been very committed and hard working this summer, so we should start getting busy again to help them with their activities :o)
In the gallery you can find new photos I got from Guillaume.
Thanks Nico and all who are advicing us for the good results.we here then let you know that the community is very involved in goat and very happy to participate by doing with our veterinary Chokola to achieve.As well the neighbour villages are needing to benefit of services of our alpine male and as a result .one local goat had been pregnant already and think the community will try to generate resource by asking some thing to them.
The project is going on and community is now ready to build others shed for their famillies.
Dear neighbours,
I want to wish you all a very happy and healthy 2010. It is rather quiet in our Nabuurvillage. Guillaume, Sonja and others: what are your wishes and plans, concerning Walungu, for the new year and is one of you planning to come to the Nabuurconference in February? If so, I would be delighted to meet you personnaly.
Be well,
Nico
Dear Nico,
I'm very happy to get your message one's again.In walungu more things are planned to be done amongs them the harvest of seed sent by ken ,to achieve the training in health and water sanitation,to continue our goat breeding programm etc.
I'could be happy to meet with you and will try to discuss with our project manager(Sonja)and will let you know.
Once again I wish you happy New year and transfer you the community greetings
It was a busy year for Walungu community, though we didn't have much activity on Nabuur site. Guillaume informed me that one of female goats delivered 2 female kids, and the other one is 2 months pregnant. Roger and vet Chokola continuously train the people in goat keeping. Also, the vegetables are growing fine.
Guillaume will spend next several months in Goma, which is rather close to Walungu, so hopefully it will be easier to coordinate all the activities and to inform us more often about what's going on.
As for the planned health training, it was delayed since our trainer Edmond and his family were sick. We hope the training will be held some time soon.
Nico - I am not yet sure if I am coming or not, I am still rather confused about the camp and am waiting for more info about what it will be about and in what way in could contribute. It would be really great to meet you face to face. Guillaume informed me that unfortunaltelly he will not be able to come because of his work schedule.
Dear neighbours,
It is good to see that our community has expanded and that there is a good spirit. That's why I wonder,how we shall move forward. What do we want to achieve for Walungu: a good working watertank/system,
expansion of the live-stock revolving fund, better information about diseases like cholera?
What do you all think and of course,you Guillaume, which cause do you feel has the highest priority?
Take care,
Nico
Hey Nico,
Haapy to hear from you one's again.I 'm very happy that you met with the walungu project facilitator while the Nabuur camp.
Annyway community is motivated and sound that the project enable them to streghten their livestock breeding skills.
As I discuss with the community,as far as they had just left the war context,they are in need to rear tehir livestock for a better nutrition and easy water access for a better nutrition.
Then i think that the priority What do we want to achieve for Walungusounds to be a good working watertank/system,and
expansion of the live-stock revolving fund.
Hello Guillaume Kahomboshi and Neighbors,
I am new to your village but have been working with several other villages on Nabuur for years. I have an interest in the DRC. I have been helping to organize a 5K run for the past 3 years in the Chicago area that benefits women in the DRC. During the run and family day, we would like to sell some authentic arts and crafts from the DRC. Does your village have a craft project where we could try to help you sell some of those crafts during the run and family day. This years run is scheduled for Sat. October 2nd.
Thanks,
Jen
Welcome to Walungu and thanks a lot for your posting. Sorry for not replying earlier, I have moved in a new apartment and have no internet access for a while. Will check with Guillaume to see if the community has some crafts to sell. Thanks again and talk soon.
Hey all,
I here apologise for to be absent for 3 month then I didn't report about walungu activities.Just want to update each of us about what is going on in walungu.We had a last chat with Sonja the project manager and talk about the training in water in walungu.Exactely we had senzitizing about the link between malnutrition and water hygiene .We have been in contact with a local NGO in walungu which has expertize in health and teached famillies.
We didn't had more poster to give to all beneficiaries but some peers continue to pass door to door to enhance skills.
We too continue with the goatbreeding programme and we think distribute in new season two goat to 5 famillies(malnurshed)
About seeds we didn't palnt ine the segond season because we harvest late .we got more seeds from de first season that wi will try to use in the comming season september 2010
Hi Ken, thank you for the link. Guillaume assures me that the goats are well fed. Beside 3 first goats, there are now also 4 kids, 3 female and 1 male. Guillaume is looking for another male kid to exchange with the one that the community has, to breed with little females when they grow up, so that inbreeding is avoided. They will try to find alpine male, but would it be ok if they find some other breed, since it's pretty difficult to find any dairy goat around?
One couple of goats is assigned to five families that built the shed, and they continue training. Guillaume also got in connection with ADI KIVU who holds training in farming and breeding. Vet Chokola will go to Bukavu to get training mainly in milking, and hopefully also get some good advices about feeding and breeding.
Also, the community will receive 400$ from FAO to plant cassava, beside the seed they have from the last season.
Have a nice day :o)
Sonja
Hi everyone,
Hope you're all doing fine.
It's been a busy time for Guillaume. He's now in Goma and got in contact with Bahizire. They should meet soon to discuss fuel briquettes and the possibility to introduce them in Walungu.
Guillaume prepared training for goat keeping. After Goma, he's going to Bukavu and to Walungu from there. The training will last for 2 days. Hope to get some nice photos of the village and the training :o)
Seed is on its way to Kenya, from where Guiom's friend will send it to Walungu. Guillaume hopes to be there when it arrives, so that he can help with cultivating.
The community looks after goats and hopefully they will get pregnant soon (if they haven't already). We'll have more info when Guillaume gets to Walungu.
Sonja
Hi everyone,
Another quick update on what's going on:
* One of the goats is pregnant for some 2 months
* Our new volunteer, vet Chokola (recommended by Trinto), is helping with the training together with Roger
* Claudia Vijge has sent a request for Worldschool students to make a project plan for revolving livestock fund and Guillaume has approved it. I still have no info about if and when they will work on the plan
* Guillaume is trying to recruit some local doctors for water training, and is waiting for their response
* Seed should have arrived to Nairobi, but our contact there still didn't manage to find out where Jean's team left it. I'm also trying to get in contact with her, but she should be now somewhere in rural Kenya...
* Guiom got in contact with Bahizire who is willing to come to Walungu to demonstrate fuel briquettes, but he needs his travel expenses covered - for him and the equipment.
Guillaume is going back to Kinshasa soon, where he'll have internet connection and we'll find out more
Btw, anyone checked swot in wiki document? Any comments on it?
http://www.nabuur.com/en/village/walungu/project/wiki/wiki-help-make-swo...
Sonja
Dear neighbours,
There’s a lot going on in Walungu. Guillaume has got back from the visit and sent an update.
* The learning farm has begun and all the families are learning to take care of the goats. Our volunteer, veterinary Chokola, is teaching them together with Roger. They based their trainings on the material from the manuals we got as well as on Guillaume’s training that he prepared on the basis of the training he had with FAO in Kinshasa.
* As I said, they now have 3 goats, 1 male and 2 female. One goat is pregnant and the kid(s) is coming in 2-3 months.
* The community is also involved in building more sheds. Beside the one built last year, there is one more shed built by one of the families.
* FOPAC (Fédération des Producteurs Agricoles du Congo), NGO from DRC which is a partner of AGRITERRA from the Netherlands, is interested to accept Guillaume’s NGO GAILD as their member.
* Guillaume’s friend Edmond helped us to get the seed that Ken has sent this summer, and the community is getting ready to plant it soon. They also grew some tomato during dry season, using irrigation from the river.
* Edmond, who is Master in Public Health and also doing his PhD research in health, is preparing a two days training in hygiene and water borne diseases in October. He’s native and can teach the community in their own language. He needs our help to design the training.
The community and the volunteers have been very committed and hard working this summer, so we should start getting busy again to help them with their activities :o)
In the gallery you can find new photos I got from Guillaume.
Sonja
Hello all,
My compliments for the results, achieved in such a short period.
Take care,
Nico
Thanks Nico and all who are advicing us for the good results.we here then let you know that the community is very involved in goat and very happy to participate by doing with our veterinary Chokola to achieve.As well the neighbour villages are needing to benefit of services of our alpine male and as a result .one local goat had been pregnant already and think the community will try to generate resource by asking some thing to them.
The project is going on and community is now ready to build others shed for their famillies.
Guillaume
LR WALUNGU
Dear neighbours,
I want to wish you all a very happy and healthy 2010. It is rather quiet in our Nabuurvillage. Guillaume, Sonja and others: what are your wishes and plans, concerning Walungu, for the new year and is one of you planning to come to the Nabuurconference in February? If so, I would be delighted to meet you personnaly.
Be well,
Nico
Dear Nico,
I'm very happy to get your message one's again.In walungu more things are planned to be done amongs them the harvest of seed sent by ken ,to achieve the training in health and water sanitation,to continue our goat breeding programm etc.
I'could be happy to meet with you and will try to discuss with our project manager(Sonja)and will let you know.
Once again I wish you happy New year and transfer you the community greetings
Guillaume kahomboshi
Walungu Local representative
Dear all,
wish you a very happy 2010!
It was a busy year for Walungu community, though we didn't have much activity on Nabuur site. Guillaume informed me that one of female goats delivered 2 female kids, and the other one is 2 months pregnant. Roger and vet Chokola continuously train the people in goat keeping. Also, the vegetables are growing fine.
Guillaume will spend next several months in Goma, which is rather close to Walungu, so hopefully it will be easier to coordinate all the activities and to inform us more often about what's going on.
As for the planned health training, it was delayed since our trainer Edmond and his family were sick. We hope the training will be held some time soon.
Nico - I am not yet sure if I am coming or not, I am still rather confused about the camp and am waiting for more info about what it will be about and in what way in could contribute. It would be really great to meet you face to face. Guillaume informed me that unfortunaltelly he will not be able to come because of his work schedule.
Will let you know more as soon as I know more.
Have a nice day and talk soon,
Sonja
Dear neighbours,
It is good to see that our community has expanded and that there is a good spirit. That's why I wonder,how we shall move forward. What do we want to achieve for Walungu: a good working watertank/system,
expansion of the live-stock revolving fund, better information about diseases like cholera?
What do you all think and of course,you Guillaume, which cause do you feel has the highest priority?
Take care,
Nico
Hey Nico,
Haapy to hear from you one's again.I 'm very happy that you met with the walungu project facilitator while the Nabuur camp.
Annyway community is motivated and sound that the project enable them to streghten their livestock breeding skills.
As I discuss with the community,as far as they had just left the war context,they are in need to rear tehir livestock for a better nutrition and easy water access for a better nutrition.
Then i think that the priority What do we want to achieve for Walungusounds to be a good working watertank/system,and
expansion of the live-stock revolving fund.
Guillaume Kahomboshi
Walungu LR
Hello Guillaume Kahomboshi and Neighbors,
I am new to your village but have been working with several other villages on Nabuur for years. I have an interest in the DRC. I have been helping to organize a 5K run for the past 3 years in the Chicago area that benefits women in the DRC. During the run and family day, we would like to sell some authentic arts and crafts from the DRC. Does your village have a craft project where we could try to help you sell some of those crafts during the run and family day. This years run is scheduled for Sat. October 2nd.
Thanks,
Jen
Dear Jen,
Welcome to Walungu and thanks a lot for your posting. Sorry for not replying earlier, I have moved in a new apartment and have no internet access for a while. Will check with Guillaume to see if the community has some crafts to sell. Thanks again and talk soon.
Sonja
Hey all,
I here apologise for to be absent for 3 month then I didn't report about walungu activities.Just want to update each of us about what is going on in walungu.We had a last chat with Sonja the project manager and talk about the training in water in walungu.Exactely we had senzitizing about the link between malnutrition and water hygiene .We have been in contact with a local NGO in walungu which has expertize in health and teached famillies.
We didn't had more poster to give to all beneficiaries but some peers continue to pass door to door to enhance skills.
We too continue with the goatbreeding programme and we think distribute in new season two goat to 5 famillies(malnurshed)
About seeds we didn't palnt ine the segond season because we harvest late .we got more seeds from de first season that wi will try to use in the comming season september 2010
Regards
Guillaume
http://arapalgoatfarm.shutterfly.com/
Remember that the goats will be no better than the feed they are given. They must have grass, etc and protein.
Hi Ken, thank you for the link. Guillaume assures me that the goats are well fed. Beside 3 first goats, there are now also 4 kids, 3 female and 1 male. Guillaume is looking for another male kid to exchange with the one that the community has, to breed with little females when they grow up, so that inbreeding is avoided. They will try to find alpine male, but would it be ok if they find some other breed, since it's pretty difficult to find any dairy goat around?
One couple of goats is assigned to five families that built the shed, and they continue training. Guillaume also got in connection with ADI KIVU who holds training in farming and breeding. Vet Chokola will go to Bukavu to get training mainly in milking, and hopefully also get some good advices about feeding and breeding.
Also, the community will receive 400$ from FAO to plant cassava, beside the seed they have from the last season.
Have a nice day :o)
Sonja