Bek in Mwandi Village, Zambia

Well I’m still having a good time. Yesterday afternoon I got to go down the river in a dugout canoe. Musole, a local guy who’s working with us, took us out… it was very awesome. And it provided a lot of entertainment for the people on the banks who seemed to find it quite hilarious to see makua’s in a canoe.

I’ve still been working at the drop-in centre and preschool. They have a recently built playground which we have to teach the kids to use, because they’ve never had a playground before. I was over there the other day pushing kids on the swings. It was really funny because even though they were all speaking in Lozi, you could still tell when one of them was saying “it’s my turn…she’s been on there too long” etc. 

The group seems to be holding up well. One of the girls kind of lost it yesterday after seeing a newborn who is starving because the mother is starving and can’t produce any milk. And their family and the hospital have no money to help out.

It’s also really sad to see the HIV patients that are basically just left in the hospital beds to waste away. There are so many basic facilities (well, what we would call basic) that the hospital just doesn’t have. And the scary thing is that this is actually a better hospital than most of the others in Zambia.

I’m starting to feel pretty hungry so I’m going to sign off.
Take care of yourselves,
Bek