Week 6 - Journey preparations

Documenting

This week started with writing and documenting. After the safety training of last week we wrote a safety plan in which we made several group agreements for our stay in Uganda. Another document we made is the field research plan which is about testing the prototype in the field.

Mirte and Chéron working on the field research plan

Journey preparations

At the coach meeting in the beginning of this week we finally confirmed when we are going to travel to Uganda: in December! We will split up in two teams of two. The first team will be there in week 49 and 50, the second team in week 50 and 51. So in total our team will work in Uganda for three weeks.

Now we also know exactly in which rural area we will be operating: the Kibaale district in Western-Uganda (close to Mubende). This is the area where the local office of the Healthy Entrepreneurs is based.

This is the Kibaale district in Western-Uganda

This week we got our vaccinations, malaria pills and information about Uganda health wise so we are getting more and more prepared for the journey!

Meetings

We send the field research plan to Isis, a lady working for the company Healthy Entrepreneurs who is currently in Uganda. She went through the document en at our first e-meeting with Skype she gave us valuable feedback and practical information about the country.

Working on the project focus definitions

This week we also met our critic Lili. She is there for us to give critical feedback on our project whenever we feel like we need that.

Coming soon...

Next week we will meet Timo of the Healthy Entrepreneurs again. He will give us a small presentation about the tablet that is currently used by local entrepreneurs in the field to give hygienic advises to people living in remote areas.