Drew's African Odyssey - Mwange Refugee Camp, Zambia

Today, I started another workshop for teachers who work at the special needs school. I had been working very hard in the past few days to develop the lessons, as all the material I had on children with special needs was in English. After hours of translation, I finally finished it off and wrote all the materials out onto flipcharts. It was great to see almost all of the teachers come out, even one pregnant lady who is expecting any day!! The session covered how to communicate, supervise and work with special needs and blind children. Some of the participants have worked closely with these children in the camp and know so much more than I do about their development, so I let them do a lot of the speaking and question asking. I think im learning a lot more than them from doing the workshop.

In the afternoon, I had a meeting with the project manager from HODI who, of course, didn’t make it to the meeting. It seems they have the director of HODI in from Lusaka and she is taking all of their time. Hopefully I can meet him before I go to Lusaka to talk about working with them in starting Anti-AIDS clubs in each of the schools.