And they are off! After an exciting and relaxing weekend with my fellow FSD interns at our mid-summer retreat in Nyvasha this past weekend, I was ready to get back to Kakamega and back to work. Yesterday morning, at 7:30 our first candidate arrived at our new office (really exciting) for the first day of Employed Business Mentor training. The training is not only a process in teaching these candidates how to create, train, and mentor small businesses, but also the last step in the recruitment process as we narrow down our number from 12 finalists to 4 EBMs.
Because one of my biggest goals this summer with Village Enterprise was to select and train our first EBMs, this has been a very exciting but busy process for me. Yesterday morning was the first time that the 12 finalists from the 4 different locations finally came together and met. Not only was it great to see the candidates meet each other and be in the same place, but it was also a lot of fun introducing the candidates to the other members of Village Enterprise staff. It is funny to think back to a month ago when I arrived at the Sheywe location EBM interest meeting to find only two interested applicants. But by the forces of the universe, many qualified candidates found out about the position and applied. While my initial fear was that we wouldn’t be able to find four people that were up for the job, my current anxiety is over not being able to take all 12!
I’m about to run off to Maasai Mara (the Kenyan name for the Serengeti) with some friends for the weekend to see the wildebeest migration and a lot of cool animals. I’ll be back with pictures on Monday!
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