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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....
Monday, April 25, 2005
April 13th
A planned meeting with the Project Manager for HODI (the Zambian NGO that runs social services in the camp) has been cancelled - again! The man’s impossible to track down!!
I worked on the workshop all day and started to prepare a basketball workshop that I will give to coaches, referees and secondary students in May. We are trying to build up the skills of the refugees in sports such as basketball, volleyball, netball and football, so that these people can in turn train others in the rules and skills. It’s a tough task as a lot of the people have never heard of basketball – though most people are keen to learn.
We found out today, that somebody tried to break into another one of the equipment boxes. We’ll try to find stronger locks next time we’re in Lusaka…
The night was spent at my friend Tony’s place enjoying a couple of cold ones and listening to music. Too bad that only lasted an hour before the power went out, then it started to rain super hard. I got soaked walking home as I didn’t have my flash light and there was a stream running down the road I had to walk on. Luckily Tony escorted me half the way!
