I get it. I know what to do. I know how to do it.

dancing 'Ridungo'
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This final year of service promises to be fast and furious. Been in Togo for 17 months and I get it now. I know what to do. I know how to do it. I don't have much time left however.

An evolving list of objectives for my final year:
-improved cookstove campaigns targeting tchouk markets and middle school students (middle school improved cookstove contest)
-Continue Moringa powder distribution and trainings at baby weighings
-help feed 10 orphans in Sokode
-cantonwide Agroforestry conference with Bradoc
-Continue radio program-trainings on Radio Tchamba
-teach,assist and work with local middle school students as much as possible, continue penpalship
-Involve the sacred forest in my work
-Can and sell large amounts of mango jam as income generating activity with folks
-help put together a school library at local middle school
-participate in as many football practices as possible and use that forum to further my work
-animal health center project
-collaborate closely with a few select young individuals so that they become models for others.
-collaborate effectively with members of my village living in Europe or the US. Help them help their village.
-well projects/financed projects, possibly a bridge
-Hospital Moringa plantation
-Incorporate moringa Powder into egg-laying hen business
-mass production of Neem pesticide
-Weekend outdoor school among Fulani for village youth
-Continue to sell vegetable seeds but better incorporate non chemical production methods trainings
-Run computer classes with students and teachers at the local middle school where there is no power
-Do trainings by megaphone to the crowds on market days in my village
-Assist to the best of my abilities the birth of a beekeeping project
-Prove to people that Agroforestry and non chemical land fertilization is feasable in terms of required labor, to chemical fertilization
-Have an agroforestry demonstration field in place before leaving
-help provide medicines to a village health center
-help supply a blacksmith with tools necessary to continue and expand his business
- help a kindergarten to obtain needed supplies
-Pursue the other quality projects and opportunities to do good that I have forgotten to mention here and those that I will come across.
-pray 5 times a day
-learn Arabic
-master Kotokoli
-learn Hausa