We all have a first time. Right. This is my first blog entry on our new web pages. When I am in Zambia it sometimes hard to get on the internet let alone adding a new blog. So I need some practice. Perhaps I will try other things on the site.
In Zambia we have reverted back to using the good old ‘physically mailing a letter’. This has its good points: I get my reports first hand, my facilitators also get to improve their writing communications and it is reliable. It takes 20 days at least to get a letter or send one. Felix has just received 2 disposable cameras I sent 3 weeks ago. Not bad. When relying on email there were problems. Sometimes the facilitator would travel (up to 8 hours) to an internet outlet just to find there was no electricity in the town or that the internet was down. And most of the facilitators have no idea how to work a computer let alone send an email; that will come.