Jogging in Africa to Peter Gabriel
So another week has gone by and more progress has been made. I began the week by getting properly trained in Grassroots Soccer by local peer educators Isaac and Mohammed. The training went really well and I strongly feel that this is going to be an effective way of getting the message across of HIV/AIDS awareness to the kids here. The following day I met up with the guys from LWF (Lutheran World Federation) to have talks about the Human Powered Generator. They have really great interest in the project but I am not sure if itÂs for the benefit of the refugees or their own business prospects. They introduced me to a carpenter and we are going to try to make up a frame for the bike generator in the next couple weeks.
The fires at night are always a good time and Robson make it hilarious. Robson is the man. Robson is our driver, handy man, pretty much takes care of anything. He is a Zambian that has been all over Africa working all types of jobs. He is quite a character and he really gets the group going. Robson and I went to get firewood the other day when we came across this huge tree that was knocked over a bit deep into the bush. We went through to get to it and when we started to get to work all I could think was how much of a pain it was going to be to drag all this wood back to the car. Then before I knew it Robson backed the car right through the bush to pull it right next to the tree. We practically brought the entire tree back that night.
So the Tigers role model program is really looking good. I am going to be training the entire team next week in Grassroots Soccer and I have set up and entire schedule of visits to all of the basic schools for the entire year, I also got plans for a condom distribution campaign that is going to have the Tigers be responsible for supply condoms we got donated to the different zones of the camp. The community sports league is still getting the run around on their funding from the proposal they made up which is frustrating to all the refugees that are volunteering. We have another meeting with the proposal people next week so we will find out then. ThatÂs all for now.
The fires at night are always a good time and Robson make it hilarious. Robson is the man. Robson is our driver, handy man, pretty much takes care of anything. He is a Zambian that has been all over Africa working all types of jobs. He is quite a character and he really gets the group going. Robson and I went to get firewood the other day when we came across this huge tree that was knocked over a bit deep into the bush. We went through to get to it and when we started to get to work all I could think was how much of a pain it was going to be to drag all this wood back to the car. Then before I knew it Robson backed the car right through the bush to pull it right next to the tree. We practically brought the entire tree back that night.
So the Tigers role model program is really looking good. I am going to be training the entire team next week in Grassroots Soccer and I have set up and entire schedule of visits to all of the basic schools for the entire year, I also got plans for a condom distribution campaign that is going to have the Tigers be responsible for supply condoms we got donated to the different zones of the camp. The community sports league is still getting the run around on their funding from the proposal they made up which is frustrating to all the refugees that are volunteering. We have another meeting with the proposal people next week so we will find out then. ThatÂs all for now.
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