BruTho go ZimZam for the next ten days

Thomas and me will be gone for ten days, heading towards the North, inside Zimbabwe and Zambia. Though I am announcing it a bit late, this is not a spur of the moment kind of decision. Kristien, responsible for dREAMCATCHER here where Thomas works, is going to visit the volens projects there and the partnerorganisations. Since Thomas and me are interested in some of the jobs that Volens is looking for development workers in that region, we kindly requested and were invited to come along. This will allow us to see the country through privilidged eyes, the ones of people trying to improve situations there, and to meet some of potential partnerorganisations where we might apply to. It'd be for three years, so it never hurts for us to have a better idea of the country and the organisations, and it won't hurt them either to have a better idea of what Thomas and me are like. It sounds fascinating, though the fact that the volens couple that will be accompanying us asked to bring 10 kilo's of baking powder, so that they'd be able to make bread is a bit scary... If it's that hard to get things that basic... We read articles of endless queues just to buy eggs, and estimates of one out of every three people in Harare (capital of Zimbabwe) being mentally sick. Guess we'll see.

But so, all this also to warn you that there might very well be some radio silence for the next ten days, till we get back in Plettenberg Bay and civilisation on the 1st of November.

Cheers!