World
Relief Staff were trained by Dr. Darcy Boellstorff and Zaine Venter
during the June trip in how to use GIS. The training manuals led
participants through the process of using their survey data to answer
questions about the location of special demographic groups (i.e.
women-headed households with orphans) and to answer questions about
spatial relationships between natural and man-made features of interest
(i.e. road buffers, proximity to irrigation water, proximity to storage
facilities, etc.). After completion of the three-day course,
participants were given a certificate of completion.
