First post from Zimbabwe 2024

Greetings everyone, from a nice warm Harare!

Tomorrow I am returning to Pakati for the first time since 2022, and very much looking forward to it! The welcome I have had from the community each time has been both wonderful & humbling.

As you can see from recent posts https://friendsofpakati.com/2024/08/18/great-news-2/ https://friendsofpakati.com/2024/09/01/follow-up-to-great-news/ https://friendsofpakati.com/2024/09/05/an-afternoon-in-north-east-lincolnshire/ https://friendsofpakati.com/2024/09/10/making-progress/ & https://friendsofpakati.com/2024/09/28/on-their-way/ we have managed to get to where we are now thanks to a number of wonderful people & organisations.

IT ready to go to Pakati

So ‘Thank You’ to the following: at Tronox – Sarah, Mike, Alice & Triston. At Coedma Freight Int Ltd – Cordelia. At Scunthorpe United – the Board, staff & too many fans to mention!

Even though we may not get the IT delivered at the school as we hoped by this Tuesday, we know they will arrive not long after.

I will endeavor to return to the school if I can before returning home to take more pictures showing the handover & set-up of the items once deluvered. If not, then a representative of Friends if Pakati will do the honours.

Thankfully we do have some other items to deliver, and they are already packed to go to.the schools tomorrow.

Friends of Pakati t-shirts

So, in the meantime, I took another trip to Domboshawa caves…

Much more to come in the next few days!

Author:

My name is Chris Walker, and between January 1989 and September 1991 I worked, through VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas), at Pakati Secondary School in Murehwa South district in Zimbabwe. I was a Maths teacher for 2 years, the Acting Head for the last 8 months there. I have also taught in Botswana & the UK, had 4 years working for VSO, and have been a Civil Servant in Bradford since 2005.

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