Catherine Nakalembe

And so, because I knew about the mission, et cetera, and I worked on drought, I have a PhD student who's working on drought.

The plan was,

We're going to make sure we have some sensors in the ground before the satellite launches.

No funding.

So I buy four stations.

with my, what do you call it, leftover money.

So I brought one when I was in Nairobi.

We have a station in Uganda, in Karamoja, actually, installed by my favorite oldest friend who took me everywhere when I was doing my PhD with a farmer there.

We have one in Tanzania with my friend that I worked with at Sokoina University.

We have one in Kenya at my friend's friend's farm.

We installed them and we have now a WhatsApp group of groups.

We followed the requirements for calibration.

They fall within the grid of the sensor.

They fall within these requirements for it to be actually a good data set on the ground.

But the only way this project would be magical is if we can install like 2,000, 5,000 or 20, I don't know how many stations considering the size.

and the scope and the scale of drought on the continent.

Yes.

So like, I think you asked, how do you scale me?

From what I've experienced is there are so many really brilliant people who, like a lot of people reach out to me on LinkedIn.

They're like, I'm inspired by your work because I want to do what you do.