I Lusaka besøgte jeg min tidligere MS-kollega Manja og Emmanuel, der var blevet gift, siden jeg forlod Zambia, og havde fået lille Liseli.
In Lusaka I visited Manja, my former MS colleague, and Emmanuel, who had got married and had little Liseli after I left Zambia
Min gamle Hilux
My old Hilux
I also met my old colleagues at MS Zambia - among them Mabo, our transport officer (above) - below tha new management Kanene, Director, and Else, the Administrator,.and below right Chembe, the Logistics Officer . And my Hilux was parked in the yard so I could have a picture for my grandson Noah of Grandma with her 4-wheel drive vehicle. I got quite wistful.
På buststationen fandt Dulani
og jeg en stor rutebil, der stoppede i Petauke. Der var masser af mennesker
at kigge på, mens vi ventede på, at bussen skulle blive
fyldt, så vi kunne komme af sted. Jeg så en mand med de
frygteligste krykker, jeg har set (billedet herover til højre),
og da en af mine bedste venner går med krykker - men af en ganske
anden standard - måtte jeg lige have et diskret billede.
At the bus staion Dulani and I found a big
coach stopping at Petauke. There were lots of people to look at while
we were waiting for the bus to fill so we could leave. I saw a man with
the most terrible crutches I have ever seen and since one of my best
friends is a crutch user - using crutches of a totally different standard,
mind you - I just had to have a discreet picture.
Nelia Sakala
Nelia opened her doors to me and let me stay at her house while I was in Petauke. It was nice accommodation and you soon get used to having water in buckets all over the kitchen because the water system in Petauke was originally constructed for 2,500 people and tday the township has at least 15,000 inhabitants. Nelia works at the District Council in the Finance Dept. Down there, by the way, those who have official jobs are called the working class. In Zambia there are an estimated 3-400,000 official jobs for a population of a good ten million.
Aftensmad hos Nelia, her Floyd fra Petauke District Council
To af mine bedste zambianske veninder på besøg, Margret, min tidligere husholderske, og Judith, mor til lille Josefin (Se herunder til højre!)
Above left: Dining at Nelia's - Floyd from the Council
Above right: Two of my best Zambian women friends visiting, Margret, my former housekeeper, and Judith, little Josefin's mother (Se below right)
Der ordnes hår hos Nelia
Hairstyling at Nelia's
Det var så dejligt at se Ireen og Susan på
biblioteket igen - og at se, at bordene og stolene fra Handelsskolen i
Randers gjorde nytte.
It was so nice to see Ireen and Susan at the
libraby again - and to see that the tables and chairs from Randers Business
College served their purpose.
Det var som at komme hjem, da jeg endelig
var på Petauke District Council igen, og alle modtog mig med åbne
arme. Noah til højre, mit barnebarns navnebror og chauffør
ved Council, sagde triumferende: "Kan du se, hvad jeg sagde. Du ville
finde os her. Vi passer på os selv!" med hentydning til vores
sidste samtale, før jeg forlod Petauke i 2004.
It was like coming home when I was finally
back at the District Council and everybody welcomed me with open arms.
Noah, right, my grandson's namesake and Council driver, said triumphantly,
"See? I told you you'd find us here! We're taking care of ourselves!"
referring to our last talk before I left Petauke in 2004.
Og min tidligere arbejdsplads havde nu masser af brugte, men nyttige
computere, også doneret af Handelsskolen i Randers, og alle havde
fået kurser i at bruge dem.
And my former place of work now had lots
of second-hand but useful computers, also donated by Randers Business
College, and everybody had beein trained in using them
Vandingeniør Harrison Lwenje
var glad, for det kommunale vandværk skulle ikke længere dele
computer med kommunens Nyika Motel (7 km væk), men havde fået
to selv.
Harrison Lwenje, Water Engineer, was happy
because the Water Section no longer had to share a computer with the Council's
Nyika Motel (7 km away), but had got two of its own.
Weekends in Petauke
Juleaften - "ikke-jul" udenfor i den lune aftenluft 
Christmas Eve - outside enjoying the warm evening
air
Sælgere i by og på land
Vendors in the township and by the road
Sweeping the floor
Afslapning i middagspausen i Petauke
Relaxing during lunch hour in the township
Council stillede sin nye
bil og chauffør til rådighed, så jeg kunne komme ud
i distriktet og se nogle projekter
Council put its new vehicle and driver at my
disposal so I could visit some projects in the District
On the way I took the opportunity to visit Chanda and her little daughter Caroline, who is half Danish
Shaking hands with 72 little, self-conscious orphans when I went to their school to see how they were doing
Lucas, frivillig fra Radio PASME,
greb chancen til at optage et rollespil opført til ære for
mig. :o)
Lucas, a volunteer at Radio PASME, grabbed
the chance to record a role play performed in my honour. :o)
Og jeg benyttede lejligheden
til at tage billeder af kvinder og deres børn.
And I grabbed the opportunity to shoot some
pictures of women and their children
Some single mother have nothing but prostitution to live by. In this project the women were fighting to find alternatives.
The Chairman of the Cheso Dam Project Managing Committee and a section of his 24 children and 3 wives (the last time he had four but he has divorced)
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