Tour guide around Maz
on Rob Wootton (Zambia), 20/May/2010 13:51, 34 days ago
VSO has been visitingthis week and they brought with them a number of HIV and AIDS stakeholders from other parts of Zambia who wanted to know more about the work going on in our district; so we organised a tour of some of the key people that we work with. Whilst there was lots of running around for me and a bit of worry trying to get everything set up, it was really interesting to actually go and visit some of the stakeholders’ projects that I had been hearing about but not yet had a chance to see their work. In a packed schedule, with everything running according to Zambia time (i.e. fairly late), we visited stakeholders providing home based care, carrying out voluntary counselling and testing, running trials on a newprotective gel, encouraging peopleto live positively and offering programmes for orphans and vulnerable children. We also paid a visit toChieftainessMwendaat her palace to learn about her early involvement in supporting HIV andAIDS activities. It felt like a visit your grandmother, being served drink and biscuits in her cosy, friendly little home which is far from what you would normally understand to be a palace.