[postedl from my iPhone] Today the team split with Claire and Tracy embedding themselves in Siachitema with their guardian, Albert. Because of the superb groundwork we did yesterday, the women were given a room on the back of the Rural Health Centre and Albert is using the tent we brought with us. I then went […]
Test run – the wholesaler
9 August 2012 by
You don’t get many pictures on me on this blog but here I am in my element. I’m holding the first carton of Kit Yamoyos and delivering it to the Coca-Cola wholesaler in Choma. This was the start of the wholesale part of the test run which happened today (9/8/12). The box contains 7 bags […]
The story of our first Kit Yamoyo sale
8 August 2012 by
Today has been eventful despite the fact that I’ve spent more than eight hours of it at the wheel of the Land Rover. We left Lusaka early this morning and arrived at the Choma Coca-Cola wholesaler just after midday. There we met Edmund Muleya the officer in charge. We hadn’t met Edmund before as we […]
How to assemble a Kit Yamoyo
7 August 2012 by
At 11 o’clock this morning (9am GMT) I will be training the person at Pharmanova in the assembly of a Kit Yamoyo. He is the person who will lead the Kit Yamoyo assembly team. I’m hoping that we will get 35 done, bagged (5 per bag) and packed into a carton. This carton will be […]
Moving towards District selection
9 January 2012 by
Crunch time is approaching in terms of which Districts we select for the ColaLife trial. The ‘tension’ between the desire to go for what academics call a ‘randomised cluster trial’ – the gold standard in trial design – and the practicality you encounter on the ground; the way free markets work and the impact of the personality […]
