Nutrition Interns first meeting with Muchui Women 'Champs'

Megan, Sydney and translator Rosemary explain what we would like to do this year

Jennifer Taylor here-  nutrition faculty advisor for the Students for Development Nutrition team. Just a quick note to let you know that we had our first meeting of the Muchui Women Food Champs today. It was a great success! The women enthusiastically agreed to work with the 2011 Nursery Parent champs in forming a "SuperStar Champs Team" for each of the four primary schools in the area: KK Ndgege, Marinya, Kamuketha and Kinyenjeri.  Sydney and Megan worked with Rosemary, our translator, for the first time, and it went very well.  I brought my laptop and showed them pictures of previous years. Gales of laughter and back slapping resulted.  I am so proud of their confidence: we asked them to provide special cooking tips which we can include in their teaching binders, to be used by them in the future.  We are doing the same thing tomorrow at Ruuju, and will be meeting with our teams next week to plan our detailed education sessions. We also start our home assessments of food security and diet quality at Ruuju.

Miriam PROUDLY wears her personalized t-shirt from Roger

I also wanted to post a picture of a proud and happy Muchui woman Margaret Mwoira, who was presented with her t-shirt provided by Roger Henry of Farmers Helping Farmers. Roger is fundraising for pitch forks so that the women can more effectively compist. She was so happy that she danced around the Muchui Business centre grounds, and asked me (passionately) to tell Roger how happy she is and how she looks so 'smart'. She kept it on the entire meeting! I have a video which is priceless, but too large to post. You 'done good', Roger. After watching the reaction (and Mama Salome was coveting it yesterday), we are trying to see how we can make t-shirts for our champ teams here. Must get to bed early- big day tomorrow!