AJESOV Life Skills Workshops and Home Visits.

This trimester break the Ajesov Association conducted a one day Life Skills Workshop for the beneficiaries. The topics taught and discussed by the leaders and consultants were on education and development, HIV prevention and Child Rights. The association anticipated 150 children for the all day program that included a lunch. That morning we had heavy rains that delayed the start of the workshop and prevented only a few from coming. The walk for some children can be two hours. The leaders also collected the report cards of the children to document this last periods results.

I was able to make two trips to Nyamata for home visits with Ajesov this month. The focus of the home visits was to access the kitchen garden project Ajesov implemented last year. The leaders worked with the heads of the households to develop sustainable food projects for the households and potential income generating. The challenge in Nyamata or the Bugasera District is the weather, it can be very hot and dry depending where you are. The poor soil and lack of water forces many homes to plant cassava that does well with these. However cassava has limited nutritional value and the demand to supply is very low.

CHABHA Rwanda is looking at creating partnerships to train households in developing the cultivating projects in all the associations.