Ron Herbert, a retired accountant and a volunteer with Farmers Helping Farmers, taught two classes of basic financial record keeping to the Directors of five dairies we work with in Kenya.
The approach he took was to show the farmers how they could
keep financial records on their own shambas.
He developed the curriculum for 4 sessions for each dairy and a Kenyan
will teach the other two sessions.
We have tried to have Kenyan accountants teach accounting
and they try to make accountants out of our partners by making it too
complicated.
Even though most
farmers don’t like bookkeeping, it’s a necessary part of any business,
including farming. The Kenya dairy farmers were appreciative of
the training- they even did their homework between the two sessions!!
One of the attached pictures shows a few farmers discussing
the training. They are seated under a large avocado tree near Karatina which
provides shade- it is the most pleasant classroom in the world. The other one
shows Ken Mellish presenting a laptop computer to the Dairy Chairman so they
can start computerizing their milk records.
This laptop was donated to us.
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