Today was another awesome day. We had an early start and baked our third variation of the muffin. We added 2 grams of sugar to see if people prefer the muffin just a little bit sweeter, rather than the 4 grams of sugar we added yesterday. We also made pudding with less banana, and pudding with added sugar, to finish out those variations from yesterday.
Neena, Karli, Rachel, Matt, and Kayla went to the Rogbalan, an area about 10 minutes from World Hope. The translators: Abubakar, Ibraham, our intern: Futia, and a teacher: Ngadi came with us to help us with our interviews. We learned about this village because Ibraham, one of our translators, lives here. We divided and conquered to get 55 total interviews done! We were so happy that today was another successful data gathering day.
(A mom trying our pudding)
(Matt giving a survey)
(A girl trying our muffin)
(Kayla and Ibraham’s family)
While most of the group was at the village, Chris and Seanna worked on other things. Seanna worked on a proposal for the ETeam grant from VentureWell to help us fund our project. Chris went to the market and spoke to a bunch of women selling different types of ready-to-eat food to figure out how we should distribute our muffin and pudding. Most women bought their products from somebody and then sold them in the market. We believe that this is how we will sell our products.
It was a very productive, but relaxing Saturday! We are looking forward to collecting more data tomorrow!