Altogether we are 26 people going down there, 20 students from CSE, 2 from ICM along with the CSE school manager and a representative from the Encubator. We are told that there is currently no electricity on the island so everything is powered by generators. Hopefully the electricity will come back on soon so that we can perform all the activities we have planned for the Seaweed Center and still keep you up to date.
Through the weeks leading up to this trip, everyone has had their specific tasks to prepare activities that will take place. The first days, we will aid the working women in the village Paje to carry out their daily work activities of collecting Seaweed. We will also hold different workshops with them, from drying the seaweed more efficiently to soap machinery, packaging and sales strategy. However, it is important to remember that we are not there to teach them. From experience, it does not work very well when an outsider comes to show them how everything should be. We have at least as much to learn from them, about their culture and the art of soapmaking as they have from us. Therefore, this whole trip and all the activities and workshops will be an experience where we will all learn together.
Erik from the CSE class is alredy on site preparing for our arrival. The weather is 30-40 degrees warm with constant sun. It will be nice with a change from the unusually snowy and cold Sweden! I must now get myself to school to pack all the toys we are bringing for the children to play with at the Seaweed Center. I will leave you with a pic of the construction site as it was a week ago. Check the blog out soon again to see how everything is progressing!
/Markus
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