Two Matís employees are on their way to Kenya to hold a course for fish inspectors. The course is held by the United Nations University's School of Fisheries and is intended as a graduate program for practicing fish inspectors in that country.
This is a new approach to education in developing countries where the purpose is not only to hold courses but also to establish a sustainable course, which the locals take over as a result of the stay of Matís employees.
The course was originally planned to be held in Kisumu, by Lake Victoria, but according to Margeir Gissurarson, another Matís expert who will hold the course, the situation in Kisumu is still precarious after the riots that followed the elections in the country at the end of last year.
The course will instead be held in the port city of Mombasa, Kenya's second largest city. Margeir will be out on May 24th and Franklín Georgsson will be added to the group on May 31st. Both are experienced Africans and well known in the jungles of Africa, but they have held courses in Mozambique under the auspices of the Icelandic International Development Agency (ICEIDA) and went to Kenya in 2007 to prepare for the planned course.
The picture shows Franklín Georgsson (2nd fv; Margeir Gissurarson (b. Middle) and Sigríður Ingvarsdóttir, an employee of the University of the Fisheries School of the United Nations, chatting with locals in Kisuma last year.