Upgrades at the CPS

Food poisoning became a problem in Tchaourou the end of last year because the foodstuff was not being properly stored and handled. (Don’t worry, we never got sick). As a result, Jaren’s amazing supervisor asked the Minister of Family, Women and Children for money and received enough to build storage rooms/store fronts as well as transformation rooms for the CPS to monitor processing. This foodstuff includes in’games (the big tuber starch), manioc (another big tuber starch), and corn that the local womens groups process into products to sell (dried in’games for pile, manioc for gari, dried corn for pate, etc). Each group will receive a room to store the organic foods and sell their processed goods. Additionally, 3 large rooms will be constructed for the women to transform their products, all under the supervision of the CPS to prevent contamination. These rooms will also be used as a seminar space where the women's groups will be taught accounting. Steve plans to use this project as a platform to start women's groups savings and credit unions.

Here are pictures within the first week of work.

To unveil the project, the Minister of Family, Women and Children came to Tchaourou.

On the far left we have the Mayor of Tchaourou and next to him (in the pink & purple modele) is the Minister who praised the project and its objectives.

Stay tuned for the final product.