Today we visited with a school in Nsinze village.  We arrived early in order to walk through the village, greeting friends and neighbors.  We encouraged people to attend today’s meeting as we had a special guest: the District Forestry Officer.

These types of meetings provide the program with a sense of legitimacy in rural contexts as people are able to see our collaboration with their government.  The DFO provided some great conversation starters–everything from tree spacing to sanitation.

I snuck a shot of Abraham as he updated his field notes about program receptivity and tree health.

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