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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....
Tuesday, May 31, 2005
April 30th
The shitty week got a little better today as I strolled down to the falls today with some friends. It seems our Guard had a number of problems in his life that had pushed him to commit suicide. He had a pretty serious drinking problem and couldn't handle his family life. He also had some problems with one of the families in the village to whom he owed a lot of money for some damages he caused to one of the elderly women in the family.
We're all very sad and wondering what we could have done to prevent this death, but the answer is there wasn't a lot we could do. People had tried very hard in the past to help him, but nothing was working. His first wife told us that he had been telling her he was going to die very soon, but she didn't know, up until now, what he was talking about.
Seems everyone around town already knows about the death, but people do not sympathise with him for doing this. The people here are against him doing this as he left behind a good job and a large family. The saddest part is that he left behind 3 children enrolled in school, and now there will be nobody to pay their school fees.
