We finally met Deman, our local Global Health participant in the SRS training volunteer program from the Nairobi office. She took us to the EHNRI office (Ethiopian Health & Nutrition Research Institute), which houses the local CDC building among others. We were in search of the 56 boxes of training materials sent over from the US so that we could assemble and organize the materials for the Train the Trainer session next week, plus the subsequent 6 regional trainings to follow. We ended up moving all the boxes out of the crowded lab they were in to better get into everything. And in the end, we schlepped them all back into the lab in a much more organized fashion!
After all that work, we picked up some wayward luggage at the airport and then did some shopping in a neighborhood market area. We all got some nice souvenirs & gifts to bring home. Deman was kind enough to find us somewhere to celebrate Thanksgiving with a buffet dinner at a nearby hotel, so apparently if you look hard enough, you can find a little bit of home wherever you are.
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