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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....
Sunday, June 12, 2005
May 27th
While I was gone, Sophie had been giving a workshop to preschool teachers on games to play with their students. We got some information that there is no money left in the UN budget to run the maternal schools, so these teachers have not been paid for a few months. Most of them are hoping that they will start being paid again in due time, but no one has told them that the entire funding for the preschools has been cut off… We are quite good friends with the lady who is in charge of education in the camp, and she informed us of this fact, though she hasn’t yet gone to the camp to tell the teachers because the husbands of the teachers have threatened her with violence… She’s waiting for the situation to clear up a bit before going back.
There has been a problem with the management of the NGO responsible for education and social services – HODI (which means welcome in Bemba), as they often wait months to pay the people in the camp and a lot of their Zambian employees have been missing work and quitting. There’s been rumors that they will be pushed out of the camp management by the UN… stay tuned…
