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CARE KENYA/SITE NOV 2009
Training activities and recommendations
1. Training activities
Training for the milk handlers took place in the training locations tabulated below. A training
attendance form was used to gather some data and is attached to this report as Annex II.
Findings obtained from discussions and observations during the training are summarized below.
Findings from the training
No Training Number
of Milk buying Milk Milk Milk
location trained milk price/litre selling transport
volumes
traders
price/litre
cost/litre ( litres)
Primary milk collection points
1 Bura Nadhir 60 30 50 2.00 463
2 Kamuthe 36 40 60 3.30 545
3 Saka 48 40 50 5.00 721
4 Sankuri 33 40 50 5.00 424
5 Raya 60 40 50 5.00 1053
6 Shimbirey 30 33 40 6.00 950
7 Dujis 30 40 60 1.00 780
8 Hagarbull 30 40 60 5.00 397
9 Dertu 30 30 43 1.00 423
Total 357 - - - 5,756
Secondary milk collection points
1 Garissa 42 60 70 N/A 1463
ATC
2 CK 31 60 70 N/A 1230
Conference
3 CK Car 51 60 70 N/A 613
Park
Total 124 - - - 3,306
G. Total 481 - - - 9,062
Av/ trader - - - - 20 litres
The training took place in various locations as highlighted below;
i. Bura Nadhir
Sixty primary milk collectors were trained in this trading point and all were women. Each group
member was trading an average of 5 litres of milk per day for six days. The women boil and sell
milk individually during shortage but boil at a common point
in peak season. They heat the milk indirectly using plastic
containers dipped in a sufuria of boiling water.
The producers from the range lands deliver the milk between
10.00 am and 11.00 am while the milk transport vehicle
arrives at 1.00 pm to ferry the milk to Garissa town.
A training session at Bura Nadhir Assignment <strong>Report</strong> under ELMT compiled by SITE
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