After breakfast, the team is ready to get started and eager to look at the site. There was much work to be done. There were a number of meetings that needed to be schedule, we were still hunting down surveying equipments, and we also needed to make up the schedule for the time we are in Ndola. I spend most of my day trying to figure out how big an area the composting facility needs with the limited info I have which went no where. In the afternoon, we went to walk the site which RPC was in the process of buying. The site is about 4.5 aches, it has a stream running along the bottom boarder and has very nice trees on it. The site has a two way slope and has a 30m drop from top and bottom. Next to the site were a bunch of mud houses own by farm workers working the land RPC going to buy. The villagers were not too happy with us walking around the site since the sell has not been finalized yet. We quickly drew a crowd since we are so good looking and all. The crowd was not hostile but at one point one person said “no white no fight.” Soon after that, we quickly went back to our base camp. We had a short meeting to discuss the site and we concluded it will be very expensive to put a processing plant on a sloped land. Lots of sand will be needed to level the land. That evening, we told RPC our finding and suggested finding a new site and gave them a set of guidelines. What happened with the site really show me how critical the service eMi is providing. If RPC has brought the site, then they will spend a lot more money on the land and might not be able to sell the chicken for as cheap as they want. After dinner, it was a time of sharing and it is off to bed.
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