Drew's African Odyssey - Mwange Refugee Camp, Zambia

Day off from the camp today. Spent the morning cooking pancakes and banana bread. Bananas are everywhere this time of year and our driver peter just picked all his bananas and brought over a big bag for me, so I've been busy trying to eat them all! Met up with a friend in the afternoon and we went over to buy a chicken from the nuns at the Catholic School for the blind which is located just down the street from us. The nun who sells us the chickens, fittingly named Charity, kindly notified us that they were out of chickens, but we stayed and chatted with her for some time and she invited me over to the school for Friday to participate in a festival that they were having for the students. The sister we were speaking to comes from Mbala, a town north of Mporokoso near to Lake Tanginyka, I spoke to her about Les and Gail Jay, friends of our from PEI, who spent 4 years in Mbala as missionaries. She seemed to remember them and I shared with them what special friends these people are to our family. Nice to finally have something in common with somebody!

I also headed down to the Red Cross offices to visit with friends there. Our friend Brian Saka has become the de facto Project Coordinator for the mission here as the previous boss, Major Chilufya has been transferred to Lusaka. I met with Marianne who is a white lady that worked with the Red Cross here for many years. Quite an interesting lady, who is originally from Holland and who is responsible for the building of the Red Cross Club that I have been known to frequent (it's not really a club but an outdoor structure with a couple of chairs, a TV, and a pool table).

Posted by: Drew Gardiner / 12:05 PM