FCIT students were informed after the first visit that they were to go back to Nakasongola in a few days time to map the agricultural fields, trading centers, water bodies, proposed production sites, grinding mills, factories, roads and other market places. This could not happen right away because we never had enough skills in mapping.
Save The Children and it's partners organized for the training to take place and it was approved that Geographical Information Systems training had to start on 06-July-2009. The training was scheduled to be conducted with in two weeks, 3 hours per day. We started the training at 2 pm from the GIS lab at FCIT. ARCGIS is the application software that we were trained about and for real all our sessions were good because Mr. Wycliffe our instructor allowed us to practice out using Wakiso district map layers he had got from UBOS. Before the training had gotten to its end, SCiUg requested that we first get to the ground to collect some sample information. This required us to have good knowledge of using Global Positioning Systems(GPS) for taking satellite coordinates of a specific point(Longitudes and Latitudes).FCIT did not have many GPS' although we were taught how use the available few. On Thursday 9th we left for Nakasongola and mapped only two sub-counties with in two days. The group leader of each group had move with us through the plantations of the different farmers in each group because we feared that some could think that we were trying to steel the products and land. All in all, this is about the first mapping sessions.
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