Kidabaga - CVP Report May 14-2010

2010 CVP
Companion Village Project
Visit Report
5th Visit Year two
May 14th, 2010


Village Kidabaga
Pastor Joyce Ngandango
Companion Faith Lutheran Church
Attendees
Weather for the past month Rainy
Reporters Ibrahim, Gabriel and Pastor Lunodzo

Purpose of the visit
• Explain and demonstrate how to take yield measurement.
• Deliver two containers (20 liters and 1 liter size) and a 10 m string.

We visited the Kidabaga Parish Today (May 14th, 2010) at 1: 00 pm unfortunately there were no people waiting for the seminar despite the fact that we informed them about our visit. We don’t know if changing the schedule for them (from May 17th to May 14th) is a reason. The schedule was changed because we wanted a report to be presented at the Faith Lutheran Church meeting on May 18th, 2010. At Kidabaga we only met an Internship student from Tumaini University (5th Year Theology student) and when we asked him where pastor Joyce is, he told us she is in hospital at Iringa town, it looks like she is about to have a baby! Probably 1-2 months to come, I am not so sure about that.
We visited the Kidabaga village government office and met the Village Chairman, we discussed few things and we asked him what village population is and how many families. The answers were 2,361 and 488 respectively.
We took an internship student and he ride with us to a preaching point called Ilamba, there we met an evangelist and we went to the plot. We are unhappy with how the corn and beans look like. They received enough rain as compared to other CVP sites this year but still they didn’t do a better job to make their plots better. We had the same discussion last year (2009) and they promised us they will work better this year (2010) but they didn’t.
We discussed with them again and we reminded them two things;
(i) If they will be able to find or rent a different farm with a better location ( good for teaching and for them to manage)
Answer: They are able to get it near the church at Ilamba preaching point (this is the answer from Ilamba Evangelist)
(ii) If they don’t to better job that will be the end of the program for them.
Answer: They promised to do a better job, since the plot will be near their neighborhood.

NB: We told them the final answer will be from their sister congregation, Faith Lutheran church in the US.
Comments:
Both plots didn’t look good at all, up to this juncture Gabriel and I thought that will be the decision of their congregation to decide whether we should continue or stop having a demonstration plot at Kidabaga.