Gitarama Field Study

So I'm pretty sure I saw a dead guy today. We were driving and I saw like 50 people standing around on the side of the road and a man on the ground. And sure enough, he looked pretty dead. Rather sobering. We were in a bus so obviously we just kept going and I'm pretty sure only the two of us in the front seat saw it. Weird.

We got to the city of Gitarama today. We're here to do some field research. We'll be going house to house through one of the poorest sectors of the area and asking them some questions about life. The point is to gather some info like, do their kids go to school? If not, why? What is the most common sickness in the house? How much money does the family bring in? Do they clean their water? etc. etc. It's so Food for the Hungry knows the needs of the community and can better help. We'll be here till Friday.

We're living at the FH office (on a whole lot of mattresses). Tonight we found a no bake recipe, went to a market, made delicious cookies anddd had a dance party in the kitchen. Now we're watching How I met Your Mother. Productive if you ask me.