Why don't we think about having the community be a cooperative? The original talk was to provide the families with a 25 year lease to provide land security. If you made the community a cooperative, and gave the cooperative a 25 year lease that would give them the land interest.

We are preparing a video that shows scenes from the brand new community here on the University campus with temporary structures and the growing number of permanent structures. Then we will show a community that has been around almost 20 years (Sisa Asoke) to see what can develop. This will remove some of the foreignness.

How far is the area of land that is being worked on from the area that will be the village? Might it be possible to build a temporary community so that they can see it work?

Can you give me some time lines like school year, seasons (rainy season, planting seasons)?

We had a teacher from Uganda on Onet who was going to walk us through the government requirements for a school. She has disappeared with onet :-(. Can you put me in touch with someone who can advise us here? How much does an average teacher make a month?

In rural Uganda, when are meals usually taken? What do they usually eat? (an OT aside - I asked someone, sometime to please check the markets and make me a list of the fruits, vegetables and grains available. Also need to know the availability of chilies, noodles and soy sauce.) What is a normal daily schedule? (When do people usually get up in the morning - not you Christina!)school hours, work hours

I will be bring a community with me who is familiar with this life style. I believe that 2 of the students will be Asoke members and Khwaundin. All of the rest of us will have lived in the community and worked on developing community building skills for a month (next month).

I think that by working together as a community and seeing that community can lighten the load (many hands makes light work), by seeing that by sharing, they can have more opportunities than going it alone, by experiencing what the community can be, the newness and foreignness of it will vaporize.