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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....
Wednesday, June 01, 2005
May 3rd
The workshop went off all right today, though it was deathly hot and I think I have sunstroke. At one point, I was standing behind the basket when an errant shot came by and smoked me in the face. I was the only person not laughing as my nice pair of Spy sunglasses lay in the dirt, shattered. Anyone feel like sending over some shades??
The basketball skill among the group is not very advanced, but I'd like to see these players get better so that we build a basketball spirit within the camp.
At the same time as I run this workshop, Sophie is doing another one on health, immunizations and HIV/AIDS which she is giving to teachers. The point of her workshop is to teach games that teachers will do with kids that have health messages attached to them.
We found out today that the community workers and teachers within the camp have not been paid for some two months. Everyone is very upset, as the NGO responsible for this service, called HODI, has not been very helpful in solving the problem. I am not too sure if they don't have the money or they are doing this on purpose or what, but we have scheduled a meeting to talk about it for tomorrow. It's very important to us that the teachers are paid as it really affects their motivation level and how they are working with the children. Last time this happened, there was a big strike, so we will wait and see if that happens again.
