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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 9th
Supposed to start a netball workshop today for female youth at the secondary school. We learned this morning that Peter was unable to work and we had to drive to the camp with the Red Cross vehicle. By the time we arrived, the participants had already left, so I spent the morning planning the rest of the workshop with one of the coaches. I also spent some time with the workers at the Red Cross Clinic, where all of the sick refugees will go, especially the pharmacist, Mr. Chimba, who updated me on the happenings of the clinic. I couldn't believe that they have over 100 births at the clinic every month!! That's 1200 new people in the camp every year!! As of late there haven't been any serious health problems within the camp, though at times there have been serious outbreaks of malaria and measles.
We found out today that Peter will be quitting in July, which means we need to hire a new driver when we go to Lusaka in June. This is really going to be a problem for us as he is also a great mechanic and knows the vehicle's problems really well. It's going to be hard to find someone to replace him.
