Today was a great day, especially because we were able to sleep in until 11 today! Everyone was able to get a good nights rest to attack the day and hit the ground running. (Shoutout to Khanjan for that.) Our morning started with a group meeting to plan out the rest of our of time here in order to be as productive as possible and to alleviate the amount of downtime we have. After that, Kayla and Chris were able to boil sweet potatoes thanks to the Mushrooms team since our pot got locked in the bakery for the weekend. After a few failed attempts to get the fire started, we were eventually successful and had a rapid boil in no time.
(The boiling purple sweet potatoes)
The next step was mashing them, so Neena and Karli decided to use the same mortar and pestle as we used for the ground nuts and the results were perfect. We also made extra batches of peanut butter in the way to use in the recipes later.
(Matt smashing sweet potatoes into a paste)
Chris and Kayla took a trip to the market later that day to pick up additional food for the recipes to make for the next couple of days. Chris has a stroke of bad luck as a motorcycle drove over his foot, but he’s recovering well. Throughout the day Kayla and Karli were able to establish a good wifi connection and began to research possible grants and other money sources for the team in the future. The team also tried to establish an additional translator to help give questionnaires in front of World Hope. The team plans to bake the sweet potato cakes at the hotel in the morning, and then give them out in front of world hope later that day. As for the pudding, Neena, Seanna, Matt, and Rachel will make it at World Hope in the morning, and hand out samples to gather questionnaires outside of churches as they let out this morning.