So far, we are going to dinner at Jessica's friend, Nancy's tonight (also swimming); hearing some speeches at a palliative care rally, doing part of a Church service at Benard's church tomorrow, visting Kondwa Monday, attending a seminar on Tuesday, and running a clinic with Dr. Brian Kongolo in Ng'ombe Compound on Wednesday. We have been invited to visit the Mother Marie Therese Lissen hospice in Mpanshya, (overnight trip) so that is another possibility. We will be going to Livinstone and the falls also.
Joan is holding up just fine.
We had tea at Angela's (Kondwa director) yesterday evening. Her American connection is a bit dodgy - she has been waiting since July for $19000 to start building the schoolrooms. Lots of people came over to visit from Texas, but no $$$ yet. As Angela puts it - "we live on hope". Benard said that if it wasn't for our efforts the Flying Angels project simply would not be able to keep going.
What else? There is a lot, so just a couple of insights...Angela is now feeding about 170 students 2 meals daily, since there is often no food for children when they have graduated from Kondwa. Benard was wearing his best clothes, we had Shima (cornmeal mush) with meat for the afternnon meal. The very best of the little they had. The two suitcases of School supplies were very well received. The gift bags for teachers will be given out on another visit next week.