Today (Sunday, 30/1/11) is our last full day in Zambia this trip and we’ve been invited to lunch! We need to return the vehicle we used for the Mpika trip to its rightful owner so I nipped out and got it cleaned although you wouldn’t have known it half an hour later . . . it’s […]
Zambia Diary | Day 13 | Return to Lusaka from Mpika
1 February 2011 by
Not much to report from today (Saturday, 29/2/11) as the day was spent returning to Lusaka from Mpika. This return journey really brought home how far Mpika is from Lusaka (and how big Zambia is). We started off at 9.10am and arrived in Lusaka at 5:50pm. We stopped in Serenje for fuel and just south […]
Zambia Diary | Day 12 (Part 2), Visit 2 | Friday Field Trip
30 January 2011 by
The last kilometre to Mpepo Rural Health Centre It takes about an hour and a half to reach Mpepo from Mpika. The Health Centre lies barely a kilometre from the tarmac road. Again we were astonished to see satellite dishes on one or two of the village houses (see above video). In Zambia, Health Centres, […]
Zambia Diary | Day 12, Visit 2 | You couldn’t make it up . . .
30 January 2011 by
Our old house in Mpika If anyone out there doesn’t believe that truth is stranger than fiction – read on . . . Safely arrived in Mpika, we had time, before darkness fell, to look around the town and our old ‘compound’, still known locally as the DDSP. We quickly found ‘our’ old house, tucked […]
Zambia Diary | Day 11, Visit 2 | Timewarp to Mpika
29 January 2011 by
Stopping for fuel at the Serenje junction Soon after sunrise on Thursday morning we headed out on the road to beat the lorries – well, most of them – in a borrowed car. For us, it was a journey back in time: a 7 hour trip we first made nearly 25 years ago, with 3 […]
Zambia Diary | Day 10, Visit 2 | Logframes, World Vision and Mpika
26 January 2011 by
My trip out today on a Coca-Cola truck fell through last night which was a shame but at least it meant that Jane and I could work together on the pilot design while the hints and tips from yesterday’s session with UNICEF were still fresh in our minds. It also meant that we could meet […]
Zambia Diary | Day 9 , Visit 2 | UNICEF and logical frameworks
25 January 2011 by
We had another great session at UNICEF today trying to distil the ColaLife idea down to its essence so that we could build it back up into a fundable project. We started off with an analysis of the issue and after a lot of discussion and rubbing out and re-writing ended up with this: The […]
Zambia Diary | Day 8 , Visit 2 | KZF and project planning
24 January 2011 by
Outside Keepers Zambia Foundation. From left to right: Ruth Mitimingi; Jane Berry and John Msimuko Today started early with an 8am meeting with Ruth and John at Keepers Zambia Foundation (KZF). Regular readers will know that KZF are the SODIS experts in Zambia but their promoters, who work at community level, support other aspects of […]
Zambia Diary | Day 6, Visit 2 | We are off to Mpika (hopefully)
22 January 2011 by
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Zambia Diary | Day 5, Visit 2 | The Workshop
21 January 2011 by
Group work: indicative skills and participation – for the form used, see below Jane and I were very pleased with the way the workshop went. It seemed to go very well. I can take no credit for the design, that was down to Jane. I just did the techie bits! Jane put all she’s ever […]
