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CARE KENYA/SITE NOV 2009
SECTION II
Training Curriculum
The training curriculum for the assignment was adapted to suit the uniqueness of camel milk.
The pre-training visit was conducted two weeks before the actual training and helped to verify
some of the information gathered in literature review. Attached to this document is the pretraining
report as Annex I.
The curriculum was developed for the two modules as follows:
Module 1: Clean milk production, hygienic
handling and testing
Delivery time: 6 hours
• Attributes of good quality camel milk
What good quality milk should have
What good quality milk should not have
• Factors contributing to camel milk spoilage
Sources of contamination
How to avoid contamination
• Personal hygiene practices
Dos and don’ts during milking
• Camel milk preservation at production level
How to handle milk after milking to
preserve quality
How to store evening milk
Why evening and morning milk should not
be mixed
• Some common diseases that can be passed
from camels to humans through milk
How the diseases are contracted
How to prevent these diseases
• Equipment and materials for hygienic camel
milk handling
Appropriate milk handling equipment
Proper cleaning of milk equipment
Tips for handling milk equipment
• Basic camel milk quality tests
Organoleptic tests
Clot on boiling test
Lactometer test
Alcohol test
• Safe storage and transportation of camel
milk
Appropriate equipment for milk storage
Appropriate milk transport containers
Hygienic milk transportation means
Hygienic milk transport personnel
Module 2: Business Skills
Delivery time: 6 hours
What is a small-scale business?
• Defining a business and distinguishing
the different types of businesses
• Characteristics of a micro-enterprise
• What causes the success/failure of
micro-enterprises?
Reaching our customers
• Understanding the market
• The four Ps of marketing
o Product
o Price
o Place
o Promotion
• Importance of marketing
Planning for our businesses
• Defining a business plan
• Developing a simple business plan
Costing
• What are costs?
• Importance of costing
• Costing in our milk businesses
Record keeping
• What is record keeping?
• Why is record keeping necessary
• Examples of some records you can keep
Assignment <strong>Report</strong> under ELMT compiled by SITE
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