Agriculture in Apac

By Sara:

A friend of ours, Willy, who was a student in Mbale when we were there 10 years ago, invited me to teach about agriculture and the fireless cooker in his home church of Apac.  It was a fun day with many women and young people from the church.  On a hot day during the dry season, I was thankful for the tent the church had for events like this.

Learning about soil can be fun!

I don't have any pictures of the fireless cooker, but they were really excited about the possibility of saving firewood/charcoal and time when cooking beans.  In this area, people usually eat beans once or twice a day, which is very time-consuming to cook.  They said this would be SO useful for them all the time.  One lady said she had been having serious respiratory issues and was thankful for a way to cook beans without having to be in a smoky kitchen for hours at a time.  Another man said he was going to start cooking beans in a fireless cooker and strap it to the back of his motorcycle so he could deliver cooked beans to children in school at their lunch time.