Microfinance in Uganda – Part 1 of 2

As the Vice President of the Microfinance Alliance (http://www.microfinancealliance.org), a student group at the University of Minnesota promoting awareness of microfinance, part of what I have come here to do is investigate opportunities for students to get involved in microfinance in Uganda. Prior to coming to Uganda, I took a graduate survey course in microfinance [...]

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Water: Part 5 of 5 – The Business Opportunity

Finally, getting to the part that I can pitch in on! If you only read one post in my entire blog up until this point, read this one (but you may need to read the 4 previous posts for context). I have come to investigate and learn for myself what types of products and services [...]

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Counting Chickens

On Friday (Happy Independence Day!) we counted and weighed chickens. The purpose of this exercise was to determine the exact egg yield (rate at which chickens are producing eggs) and the homogeneity of the flock. To do this, we needed to chase all of the chickens out of the coop, then count them as we [...]

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Visit to Ugachick

Above: Fred, the manager of Maranatha’s chicken project, and thousands of his hens’ eggs Maranatha began raising chickens for egg production back in March, after much planning. The goals of the chicken project are threefold: to provide a more nutritious diet for Maranatha’s students, to provide practical training in egg production for Maranatha’s vocational students, [...]

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