We've hit a couple more hurdles, but are still moving forward. We ran into a snag when we were asked for a copy of the title for the land my NGO partner, SADEC is donating to the project. This is a problem when, like most of the developing world, rural property titles don't exist. There is no way to prove legally who owns what; this can be a problem even in urban areas. We managed to negotiate a solution whereby the king of my village and the Chef d'Arrondissment will sign a typed up document verifying the ownership of the property.
Due to setbacks we have reworked our schedule and modified our plan quite a bit. Though I think that our new solutions will actually put us in a stronger position at the end of the day. Asside from that we have worked together to solve the problems which has improved the problem solving abilities of our team. This is something that will make it easier when it is time to walk away next September.
Come January we should be ready to roll out our marketing campaign/ informative workshops at the local health centers and open our product into the marketplace. Before this can happen there is still much to do: we have to contact our local sales reps (Marché Mamas) and train them. We also need to collect preliminary data from the health centers we will be working with so we can acurately analyze the impact of our work.
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