World AIDS Day - Monday 1st December 2008

What will you be doing for World AIDS Day?

The organisation Avert has lots of ideas and information on their website http://www.avert.org/. There is a dedicated part of the website focusing on Zambia http://www.avert.org/aids-zambia.htm which has a huge amount of information about Zambia, the history of the AIDS epidemic, and what measures the government has put in place to help tackle the problem. It is a very interesting and informative read.

Update from Chilubula

Apologies that there are no pictures with this blog, as it is just a short one to keep you informed on progress.

Reports from our manager, Leonard, in Chilubula are full of positivity; the children in the school continue to make excellent progress and enjoy their food, the staff are so happy to be paid and hence to be able to support their families. More interest has been shown in the Centre by local and national government officials, who view it as a model set up! Communication has been quite difficult for the past few months due to the mobile phone network being very unreliable, so we have been relying on old fashioned snail mail, which can be very slow!

In December two of our trustees will be travelling from the UK to spend about a week in Chilubula to check on progress and discuss future plans with the committee out there. Lots of new photos on their return to share with you!

A date for your diaries- Friday 6th March 2009 is the date of our next fund raising Ball. More details to follow shortly.