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About five o'clock I hear talking so I get up and find that one of the day watchmen has arrived. His name is Tommy - I think - he speaks no English. We have cornflakes and coffee and Auxies tinkers with Dusty some more.
The campsite is no more than a cleared area. There are four tiny structures, two with roofs and two just grass walls. Auxies informs me that these are the toilets and washrooms but there is little to indicate their function, although on closer inspection I notice that the roofed ones do have holes in the floor. I use the bush!
Day 20. Thu 6th May Mwabvi, first trip, day 1
DaveMidgley2005-10-22 11:05:35
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About five o'clock I hear talking so I get up and find that one of the day watchmen has arrived. His name is Tommy - I think - he speaks no English. We have cornflakes and coffee and Auxies tinkers with Dusty some more.
The campsite is no more than a cleared area. There are four tiny structures, two with roofs and two just grass walls. Auxies informs me that these are the toilets and washrooms but there is little to indicate their function, although on closer inspection I notice that the roofed ones do have holes in the floor. I use the bush!
At 7:30 we drive to the gate house to meet Lester and Gracious
We then go on to the PAW site, where my first task is to sort out wages for various people. This done I look round the site and take some pictures.
The PAW site is an area of ground just outside the main entrance which has been donated by the Nguluwe village to be used as an administrative site for the project. The site will eventually contain a store, a workshop, a car-port, an office building, accommodation for staff, and separate accommodation for the site manager and for visitors. The store is already almost complete, and work is underway on the car port, and on septic tanks for the staff accommodation and the visitors’ accommodation.
It turns out that Lester has to go away this afternoon and is not back until Tuesday, which is a bit of a blow, especially as Gracious is immobile with his broken leg. However, Lester agrees to take us to Kanyimbi village to see the clinic and the school before he goes, and to deliver the photographs that Gaynor (the UK director of the PAW project) took on her last visit. We drive south west through the reserve. The road deteriorates seriously once we get past the Mguru campsite, and, although it is only about five miles to the village the journey takes the best part of an hour.
Kaloga School in Kanyimbi Village (part of Kangani Trust) has 214 pupils aged 6-20.
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See photographs from:
Malawi Gallery
