8/8/19- A Day at World Hope

Today the Ukweli team spent their time indoors for the majority of the day. The team spent the day running through messaging strategies with our great buddy Hassan. He did a fantastic job learning from Naakesh, Jordan and Zach. While that was going on, Cassidy, Sage and Rohan worked on the hiring contract that Ukweli would need for its employees while also starting preliminary quality control tests. When exposing the strip to a detrimental amount of light and humidity at the same time, it was found that the test strip was still able to hold viability up until an hour of exposure. Testing has started for temperature and humidity exposure and soon, light, temperature, and humidity. The testing had to be performed in the mushroom dark grow house in order to keep temperature and humidity stable, but it is through a field that has many fleas and Rohan wore shorts that day. Thankfully no diseases were contracted from the fleas so all is good on that front.

After this, the team all came together to take about the employee contracts. During a break in this process, Sage taught the team how to play an annoyingly complicated version of crazy 8s. Rohan lost every time they played. During this process many questions were raised that Khanjan had to answer. Questions such as how will we incentives CHWs to track negative readings on the test strips, how will Hassan transfer the money earned to us so that we can buy more test strips from the manufacturer, how can we market this to men who need to be screened for UTIs, and what is for dinner? During this meeting, Hassan brought some special green oils that he would rub in his nose and around his face. He let Rohan try a little bit and it burned like the sun itself. He had never felt such pain, but it did clear his sinuses. Hassan then gave a bottle to the very handsome Rohan telling him that he should rub it on his face that night.

After this meeting, the Ukweli team ran over the bakery to catch the malnutrition team making their first batch of bread. It was amazing. The dough was pillowy enough to take a nap in and tasted so delicious that it made Sage say “Gee willikers”. Over the day was a success but it gave the team a lot to think about and a lot to work on in the future. The puppies at World Hope also were so adorable today, especially when they took their naps.

This is the bakery where the malnutrition team made that amazing bread.

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