I think my mind was preoccupied with consistency when I made this blog because it's the one single most important thing missing from life here in Uganda. Everyone is late to everything, or early sometimes. Things done the same each day don't start at the same time. Power and water come on and go off at random. Every time I take a boda somewhere, people want to negotiate the price.
I try to instill consistency everywhere I can, in our farm operations, in our schedules; but if I try and drop an iron box of consistency into the turbulent stream that is the rest of society, I naturally get rocked and buffeted. The temptation is there to drop the consistency and just go with it. After all that's how it's done here, right?
So much of development work places emphasis on fully integrating within the culture. I'm also convinced a quality like consistency will drastically improve the processes and the people who adopt its regimen. Today I'm focused on bringing consistency to our pig farm. We've generally gotten some large scale consistency - weekly meetings, weighings, mixing of feeds, but now we need to get down to the daily, and that's where the fight is now.
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