yesterday
we woke up at 6 o'clock and were on our way to Meyomessi at 07:00.
cacao nursery
the children at Azem
the meeting with the agrical minster
the meeting at the chamber
Next time, I will tell you about NKUV, this must be elaborated on further
Ornit
Meyomessi
is a region with a cluster of 25 villages, it is in the south of Cameroon, a
totally different ecological area than Maroua or the northwest. It is an
equatorial forest area.
We were
introduced to the livestock project, as an income generating business for
women, the fantastic cooperative structure they have built with all the find
programs they plan to have there and especially the dreams and hopes of people,
to have a steady income, to have a steady water system, to have a bottled water
plant – the have marvelous natural springs and to make the area the CACAO capital
of Cameroon, we hope to become part of all of these.cacao nursery
In one
of the villages, called Azem of the Bulu people, they served us lunch, and you probably are
asking and "you dared eat"?, well first of all, duty calls and so do manners , so
I really felt that I couldn't say no, so the plan was just to taste out of
manners and not eat everything. But the chicken served, was cooked well and was
very tasty and our hosts made sure it was cooked properly and hygienically.
while eating I notice that the skin of the chicken was at least two time as
thick as regular chicken, and Avi noticed that he bone structure was diffrent, so finally we asked, what kind of chicken this is, our host's answer was, this is no chicken this is porcupine which we eat on a regular basis here. It is called Ngomb, I apologize to my veggie/vegan family and
friends, I didn't mean to eat porcupine, but that is what happened.
This
was not the only food experience we had here, yesterday Hesein took us to a
local market restaurant were we ate with our hand a local dish called Gniri –
it is a sticky maize starch (the closest I can compare is to sticky rice) and
Bascoje, Folere and Boko, different beef stews with dried gumbo (bamia), fresh gumbo
and a vegetable which is like spinach. It was very delicious and our stomach
passed the experience well. 
Next time, I will tell you about NKUV, this must be elaborated on further
Ornit
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