Production Time!

I'm no Rachel Ray...

The mixer in action! 65 kilograms packed and ready for Taiama!

Last week on the road to Taiama

I haven't updated what has been going on with the production/storage room in a while. As I explained in my newsletter, I have a mixer! It was an exciting accomplishment that only took 3 MONTHS! Over the month of December, Mike and I visited Dr. Manary, Zach, and Micah in St. Louis. We practiced making batches of the supplement using different percentages of the ingredients to find just the right consistency for the mixture. Since I have been back, I have been mixing batches left and right with a lot of help from Lindsay. When the team of missionaries were here, we ran into a problem. The CMV (mineral-vitamin complex) ran out! We ended up crushing children's vitamins and making due with that. A couple of days ago Lindsay and I went by UNICEF and explained the problem of not having any CMV. We asked to borrow one tin of it until we could get more. The nutritionist at UNICEF had a nearby government hospital donate 2 cases (12 tins) of CMV to the nutrition program! What a blessing! This week we are working on alternative ways of making groundnut paste, using a combination of palm oil and vegetable oil for the supplement, and having a metal table made for the mixer. The production room is coming right along...