West of the Zambezi

The extended rainy season finally appears to be relenting. This is great news for us since many rural roads have been impassable lately. The clinics and schools we evaluate and install with solar power are in the shadow of development and extremely hard to reach at the best of times. Now that the rain has stopped, however, we can hit the road again en-route to Sesheke district 800 kilometres away. Outside I can hear my SolarAid colleagues using the break in the weather to load the jeep in preparation for the first of four school installations this week! Some of these schools can be as far as 30km off the tar road, so we're expecting a bumpy time of it.

The SolarAid team en-route to Sesheke district with five macrosolar panels.

Later this week we will be visiting three schools on the west bank of the Zambezi River, including Lusus, an area famous in the region for the death of a British missionary in 1883. The missionary capsized his dugout canoe while visiting the local leader to request permission for activity. This story is still told 127 years on, and amazingly, in that time the region has hardly changed in terms of development. I am looking forward to a successful installation and to discover more about this famous missionary!

More soon,

Trevor