Monday was spent travelling back from Livingstone. We got home and had our first Zambian meal! It wasn’t too bad!
Tuesday morning we did some intense exercises thanks to Emilie, who’s in the army. It was kind of brutal lol. Then we had our first ‘class’ and went over the syllabus.
That afternoon we walked over to Bwafwano, one of the community based organizations in Chazanga. This is one of the community centres that we will be doing projects at. It is SO dynamic and one thing that I would like to share is how international affairs can really affect the citizens here.
The World Food Programme, part of the UN, provides support to countries that need food. This program supported the breakfast program at Bwafano to ensure that children didn’t learn on an empty stomach. Because elections are happening this year, the party that wants to be re-elected is telling its people that there is no food shortage and that they are in fact in a surplus to make the citizens believe that they are doing a good job – just so they can get re-elected. So because of this statement, the UN stopped funding Zambia and moved on to other countries that need the aid. So now Zambia, which was never in a surplus, is in even more of a deficit and Bwafwano is no longer being supported to provide the children with breakfast. Thankfully another program that had members visit last year stepped in this year and decided to support Bwafwano. Any, I just thought it’d be cool to share a little something of the vast amount of stuff that I’ve learned so far.
Ok that’s it for now! Later! Xo
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