Translation please!

Megan and I spent two busy weeks working furiously to create a curriculum for the Community Health Worker training. The EAC had hired a health instructor to provide the class, with the idea that he and the EAC nurse would have a month to pull together the curriculum. Neither of them had any experience creating these materials though and when Megan and I offered to help, they jumped at the chance. They said that in Kenya, if you want something taught you hire an instructor and tell him "I need a class about HIV." The instructor arrives the day of the class and teaches. There's no other planning or curriculum involved. I was impressed that the instructor and the nurse would be so welcoming of Megan and my efforts, given that it isn't business as usual. We used some of their references and some that the EAC already had to put together classes on almost 30 different topics ranging from "How to Help Someone Who is Giving Birth" to "Recognizing Tuberulosis." So we pour our heart and soul into this project for two weeks, meet many times with the nurse, the teacher, the committee and the coordinator, we pass around drafts for review and finalize things. And never realized that the class would be taught in SWAHILI. In retrospect, it is obvious that it would be, yet easy to see how we could make the mistake. All of our meetings were conducted in English, the curriculum and handouts were all in English, we were told that one requirement for being hired as a community health worker was the ability to speak and read English, the notetakers (Megan and another non-Swahili speaking volunteer) speak only English....it seemed like a reasonable assumption. But on the first day of class we discovered that the class was indeed in Swahili and Megan and I were the only people surprised.