Operation Joseph site visits

Last week Sean and I went on a day trip to the north of the country to Rushinga, Dotito and Mary Mount to see some of the Operation Joseph sites that are operating up there.
We were picked up from our house before the sun was up so got to see an amazing sunset on the road.
The photo below shows the first home that we visited. Alan, the programme director is sitting on the stool, with Senzeni the accountant and me on the mat. Sean is behind the camara. This guy is a resident site coordinator, whose job it is to conduct all the on-site training, and more recently monitoring of the 60 farmers who are part of the programme at his site.
At each site that we visited we checked the farmers records of his yields, rainfall and attendance at training sessions. Sean also had the opportunity to take some video for OJ training videos.
Much of the journey was on dirt roads but as it is winter it was very dry, so no danger of getting stuck anywhere!
At Dotito we visited one of the rural New Frontiers churches, who are also part of the Operation Joseph programme.
We arrived back home at 8pm to find we had no electricity (no change there then!) so had apple pie for dinner!

photos on the way