I
returned to Botembo today with the rest of the team to
conduct key informant interviews- there has to be a better term to call
these interviews. We sound like spies calling the people we
interview informants…. The interviews went well. I was paired up with
all
French speakers, so to speed up the process I asked for two of the 4
interviews
to be conducted entirely in French. I didn’t understand a word but
detailed
notes were taken for me and it put us back on time. We interviewed a
priest at
the Cathedral, lawyer, farmer and professor. They basically told us that
the
DRC faces three main obstacles to development: lack of security, lack of
paved
roads, and limited access to power.
Attached is a picture
of a road in Botembo. The sprawling city is comprised entirely of dirt roads
with adjacent open water drainage canals.
No comments:
Post a Comment