Saturday morning we loaded up and left Lusaka for Choma.

We broke the 4 hour drive with a lunch stop at Debonairs in Mazabuka.  A most interesting combination of gas station, auto repair shop and restaurant!

When we arrived in Choma, a city of 47,000, our group was split between two hotels, as expected – there weren’t enough rooms for all of us in one lodge. Our excellent driver, Japhet ferried Beth and Jennifer back and forth from the Mana Nest to the Golden Pillow Lodge where the rest of the group stayed and where we ate dinner each night. We collected many lodging-related stories during our stay.
Saturday afternoon we settled in and some of World Vision’s Hamaundu ADP (Area Development Program) staff joined us for dinner in the evening. It was a wonderful reunion with those we’d met before and we greatly appreciated this open evening to interact with these remarkable friends – new and old – who plan and implement the WASH work which WaterAfrica supports. Most of these particular World Vision staff members live in Choma and work primarily in the Hamaundu ADP, which is about an hour’s rough, rural drive from Choma. We met Albert,  Sebastian, Isaac, Agnes, John and Samuel – Program Accountants, Driver, Coordinator and Director.
This dark picture turns out to be a good representation of the lighting situation. This was the first in what was to be our evening routine of power outages at the hotel – a good reminder that this beautiful country is one of the poorest in the world.
We ended the day full of questions and eager anticipation – excited to have met our new friends – these World Vision staff members who’d be sharing their lives and their work with us through the next days.

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