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This blog will be an account my life working in a Refugee camp in Northern Zambia called Mwange. For the next year, I will be working for Right to Play, a sport and development organization based out of Toronto. What follows will be a life altering experience. Stay tuned....
Thursday, March 31, 2005
March 22nd
Another day in the camp. Today we held a workshop for the Section Leaders in the camp. These are refugees that serve as representatives for the different communities of the camp. We needed to meet with these people to give them an introduction to RTP, as they have recently held elections for section leaders and most of them are new to their posts and don’t have much experience with us.
My project partner, Sophie, was impressed with how much interest these people showed in our programming. We are hoping for their support in our training of coaches and our activities in the community. The workshop went along very slowly as most of the people did not speak very much French and translation into Swahili was needed. It was interesting for me to see how we communicate with the community. We are really trying to emphasize to people that Right to Play is THEIR program, as we are planning to leave the camp in the next few months and we would like leaders in the community to take over…
