Three Gulu University students who are in their final terms before graduating with Bachelor’s degrees in Agriculture are doing their senior projects as interns at AWE. The first to come was a young man named Morrus, who got a month of practical experience in extension work by helping Christine as she moves from village to village doing training, mostly by working with the women farmers in the fields. He is popular with the women farmers, which suggests that they may be happy to learn from him when he comes back to work at AWE as a Trainer as soon as he graduates.
Two women students, named Monica and _____, will help women farmers establish seed beds and nurseries for growing pine tree seedlings. They will also help the women farmers start seedbeds and transplant seedlings to the fields to grow bulb-forming onions, a short-term, high-value crop that will bring the women incomes in the dry season.
There is no public transportation between the villages and the AWE site, from which they can get minibus transportation to and from Gulu where they live. All three of these workers need bicycles to be able to do their work in the villages, which are scattered across a large area that is between ten and twenty miles across. Bicycles sell for about $150 in Gulu, so three bikes plus another fifty collars for spares and repairs would cost $500. Those bikes are high-priority right now.