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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 25th
We had about 25 people at our workshop today, and it went really, really well. Im still learning a lot from Sophie, who organized and did most of the workshop. The refugees are all very keen to learn and were very appreciative of what we taught to them.
But the day wasn’t all good. We found out that one of our community equipment boxes had been broken into and a bunch of balls and nets had been stolen… unfortunately there’s not much we can do but replace them and hope it doesn’t happen again. I guess the lock had been picked… and security guards weren’t doing their jobs…
On a more humorous note, people in the camp are mixing me up with the UN security officer who has recently been posted here. He is also very tall and dark featured. It is not a good thing to be mistaken for this guy though, as currently the refugees are in protest against the UN because of their food rations. Normally they are given Maize, but as of late they have been receiving sorghum, which is a cheaper alternative that isn’t as easy to prepare as maize. Whenever we are driving around the camp we hear “Masaka” which means “sorghum” in Swahili – the word that they use to protest their food rations…
