One week left

Hello all!

Only a bit over one week left of this trip.
We have finished the village visits. Now we have started to go through all the interviews we made. This should take a few days, as there is quite a lot of people we have interviewed.

On Tuesday we had an exciting day. We had left from the last village and were driving along this small road near the forest reserve. There we met some guys with a big load of wood which was apparently illegally cut from the forest. It took some time to talk with the guys and move the wood from their wagon to our car. Then it took some more time to report about them at the police station. Apparently they will get a big fine which can be something like 300 000 TSH (one years income for many people).

Tomorrow we head to the Jozani forest to see a bit of the southern part of the island. Maybe we'll also see some more monkeys there.

News from Z'bar

Hello!

During this week we have been visiting some of the villages around the KPFR. We have visited Bambi, Tunduni, Mchangani, Kilombero, Pangeni. Also we have seen some of their schools and some of their livelihoods (like beehives). All has gone well, people have been really nice and it has been nice to see life outside Stone Town. Next week we'll continue with the visits.



Today we went to see the caves from the last project (KIWA). Building for tourist reception and toilets seem to be in good condition, water tank/pump isn't working yet but should be ready for the in july when the caves should be opened to public.



We also went for a little walk in the forest around the caves and we were lucky and saw the red colobus monkeys. There seemed to be quite many of them and we even saw one with a baby. There was also a lot of butterflies around (and bats in the caves). We also went to see another cave from which water is pumped to the nearby hotels.






Now we are off to try the Zanzibarian banana-chocolate pizza. Byebye!

-Eve and Noora

Our first greetings from Zanzibar

We survived the weekend in Dar and now looking forward for the first weekend in Zanzibar. We have mainly tried to get used to the climate and culture and also tried to find our way around Stone Town's narrow streets.
We also have visited our local coordinator and project personnel in DCCFF.
We have been planning the baseline survey with Tamrini and other staff and we have made some progress also. Next week we will start survey in the villages, starting from Bambi village. We are supposed to get the survey done during the next two weeks. At the same time we probably will visit the caves from the Kiwa- project also.
In the weekend we were planning to get to know the northern coast so hoping for a good weather!

We had a nice picture to put here but this computer doesn't accept our memory stick so sorry for that. We'll try again next time!

26 hours untill we go

Hi all!

Only 26 hours untill our bus leaves from Turku. I'm starting to feel a bit excited, I guess it really hits when you step into the airplane.
There is still a lot of packing to do, we'll see how much we forget to take and how much stuff we have that we don't really need.

Eve (and Noora)

Heading to Zanzibar

LIVE project participants, Eve and Noora, are heading to Zanzibar on the 1st of May. They are going to spend there one month working as volunteers. During this time they will co-operate with the local partners in order to acquaint themselves with the current situation in the villages around the Kiwengwa-Pongwe Forest Reserve.

The objective of their journey is to survey the current socio-economical state of the participating villages. The study will function as a framework for the project during the next three years. Eve and Noora will share their latest news once in a while in this blog. Stay tuned!



LIVE-projektilaiset Eve ja Noora suuntaavat Sansibarille toukokuun ensimmäisenä päivänä ja viettävät siellä kokonaisen kuukauden. Tänä aikana he tutustuvat yhdessä sansibarilaisten yhteistyökumppaneiden kanssa projektin lähtötilanteeseen. Eve ja Noora käyvät tutustumassa Kiwengwa-Pongwe-metsäalueeseen sekä sen ympärillä oleviin kyliin.

Hankematkan tavoitteena on kartoittaa projektiin osallistuvien kylien tämän hetkinen sosio-ekonominen tilanne, joka antaa suuntaviivat hankkeen etenemiselle seuraavien kolmen vuoden ajan. Eve ja Noora kertovat kuulumisistaan ja projektin etenemisestä aika ajoin. Olkaa kuulolla!