
What 910 farmers taught us about running a training
Five things we got wrong at the start, and what we changed. Attendance, contact hours, the questions farmers actually ask, and why every participant now leaves with a record sheet.
Partnership

An organisation in West Lafayette, Indiana, joins our community wellbeing work. What we agreed, and what we committed to report back.
Enable Rwanda has begun working with Shalom Rwanda, Inc., an organisation based in West Lafayette, Indiana, that has supported Rwandan community work for years.
Through people, as these things usually do. Conversations over two years turned into a visit, and the visit turned into a plan.
Shalom Rwanda, Inc. supports our community wellbeing work and helps us reach supporters in the United States. We handle everything on the ground and report back on what the money did.
One report per programme, with the numbers and the parts that did not work. Our partners asked for that before they asked about anything else, which told us a lot about them.
Keep reading

Five things we got wrong at the start, and what we changed. Attendance, contact hours, the questions farmers actually ask, and why every participant now leaves with a record sheet.

It takes longer, the groups have to be smaller, and it settles the question of who knows what. A note on how we run field sessions.

Signed at the Taba campus in Butare. The agreement covers digital agriculture, joint research and grant writing, and it brings students into our field teams.
Newsletter
A short email every month or so. Training reports, harvest results, and what we learned along the way. No noise.