Day 7 in Zambia-Hospitality and enterprises!
Yesterday I had abusy day, started with an early session of making pancakes at 6 in the morning, then going to Chiukumbusu, an NGO at the outskirts of Lusaka, where women and orphans, HIV positive, work, study and find consolation.
The project was founded in 2005 and has grown into a self sustainable business where they make handbags, jewellery, baskets and other handcrafted good from recycled materials. I am going back there to do a needs assessment and then a project profile for them to receive more funding on Wednesday, and I also ordered a case for my tablet, that I hope to photograph and add to the post. I want to post more pictures but my schedule is a bit crazy at the moment, so will probably just upload more of them once.
After I worked on redesigning and adding content on the Rotary club website, which took my attention for most of the afternoon, but I managed to finish all the changes and updates needed, and at 6 I attended another meeting of a Rotaract club, where I got to know a couple more friendly individuals, that I might see next week again.
After that, my adoptive Zambian family picked me up to go to a BBQ at their friends' house, where I had the nicest spicy BBQ and had fun with their kids, learning more about them and being proved again how hospitable people are here!!
Today, we went to the temple in the morning and I remebered how much I miss India, and how much calm it brought me, after which I started ticking off a long list of tasks that I had to do today, regarding the website, my year in Belgium, joining the ESN committee, and learning howto cook more Indian food. The secret to living life to the full is to be curious and after that, willing to learn!
The project was founded in 2005 and has grown into a self sustainable business where they make handbags, jewellery, baskets and other handcrafted good from recycled materials. I am going back there to do a needs assessment and then a project profile for them to receive more funding on Wednesday, and I also ordered a case for my tablet, that I hope to photograph and add to the post. I want to post more pictures but my schedule is a bit crazy at the moment, so will probably just upload more of them once.
After I worked on redesigning and adding content on the Rotary club website, which took my attention for most of the afternoon, but I managed to finish all the changes and updates needed, and at 6 I attended another meeting of a Rotaract club, where I got to know a couple more friendly individuals, that I might see next week again.
After that, my adoptive Zambian family picked me up to go to a BBQ at their friends' house, where I had the nicest spicy BBQ and had fun with their kids, learning more about them and being proved again how hospitable people are here!!
Today, we went to the temple in the morning and I remebered how much I miss India, and how much calm it brought me, after which I started ticking off a long list of tasks that I had to do today, regarding the website, my year in Belgium, joining the ESN committee, and learning howto cook more Indian food. The secret to living life to the full is to be curious and after that, willing to learn!
