Journey home

We are now safely back in the UK, after a wonderful journey by train from Zambia to Tanzania. It was a great way to see more of both countries – and it is amazing how fast time goes when you can just sit and watch the world go by! We’ve uploaded a few photo’s to our flickr pages – which are also inserted as a slide show below. Looking forward to settling into UK life once our heads and bodies recover from the journey!

See the photo’s in full on our flickr pages.

Everyone’s online

Last week we launched Jubilee Centre’s new website – www.jubileecentre.org – which I have been working on over the past year. We’ve developed the new site so that it easily provides the latest news and Monday Issue from JC – you can subscribe to receive both of these by email, just click here.

During last week I also trained all the staff at JC on how to maintain the site – yet again it uses WordPress – which was interesting during the week when we had the worst internet connection ever! We got there in the end though – and are now even changing internet provider as well.

As a result there are personal blog sites springing up from JC staff and associates… so far we have the following:

Bread of Life Church Mapalo – this is the new website from the church we have worked with the most in Mapalo, including home of the HBC women’s group Polly has worked with.

Dan Daka’s blog – Dan is a volunteer at JC

Pukuta Mwanza’s blog – Pukuta, a good friend of ours from before we came to Zambia, just last week joined the JC staff to spearhead the Church Mobilisation Programme.

Micah Challenge Zambia – this is the home of Micah Challenge in Zambia, which is housed at JC.

* Update *  The past year has seen JC have major internet connection problems – despite much complaining and telephone calls we’ve never had the problems resolved. Last week’s problems forced JC to look into getting a new provider… and by Monday night this week the new provider had connected us up and all the problems of old are now left to yesterday… what can I say… a week before we leave Zambia JC not only gets a reliable fast internet connection but also a wireless connection!

Mapalo Farewell

Last Saturday our friends in Mapalo orgnanised a farewell party for us. We have both worked closely with the community in Mapalo – Polly has been working with the Home Based Care women’s group visiting the long term sick every week and helping to develop this into a sustainable funded programme, whilst Matt has worked with the church leaders there in advocacy, including helping them to develop their memorandum of understanding during the elections last year.

So a party with the locally elected councillor and the women’s home based care group in attendance was a great way to say farewell. They put us on the high table with the councillor and showered us with ‘confetti’! We’ve uploaded some photo’s on Flickr – which you should also be able to see in a nifty little show below!