Getting ready to go

I'm getting really excited about my trip as I sit in the office (on a Saturday!) making the final preparations. My first two days will be spent at Bwafwano Community School, near Lusaka where I'm looking forward to meeting again some of the children I met in 2008 and 2010 - including Elsie and Edna who featured on our latest Annual Report cover and in our leaflets. Elsie should have started in a government school by now, so I'll be able to find out how she's settling in. On Tuesday evening I'll travel to Kitwe in the Copperbelt region for four days, meeting with children and young people that we support in school, as peer health educators and trainee teachers. I'm particularly excited about meeting the former peer health educators who have recently come back together to form an alumni association so that they can keep using their HIV prevention skills and supporting upcoming generations of peer health educators. I hope to be able to post my first blog entry on Monday night, but it will depend on whether I can get internet access. Watch this space!