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Meeting / Greeting

As a co-worker at Academic Work you can choose to give 1 % of your paycheck to orphaned girls possibility to education. Your money goes to school fees, uniforms, shoes, books and material. Fee´s no other adult can pay for. Thanks to this sponsorship from individual co-workers, the program today includes 950 orphans. By giving 1…

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They are here!

13 lovely colleagues from Academic Work are in Zambia for a week. It´s so nice to see these familiar faces and get a little touch of how life is going on the Scandinavian side of the globe. Twice a year a group of co-workers gets the chance to visit Zambia and the programs that AW…

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Choirs

A Finnish choir came to town. This turned out into a big event as these types of cultural occasions are not very common. Zambian choirs joined and both the Finnish ambassador and the City Mayor showed up.                                      …

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Interest!

It seems to be a spread curiosity and an interest in Response Network and their approach. Lately there have been visitors from education programs, volunteers and other NGO´s from different parts of the world. They are coming to the office or joining in the fields. And the feedback from the visitors is very positively. People working…

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Lunch o´clock

We did it! We prepared lunch the African way. We couldn´t find the lady with the pumpkin leaves so there was no chibwabwa on the table. But instead cabbage saved us and worked out as relish. I guess I could leave out that it took about 4 hours, but here is not the right place…

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Feeling Friday

The Friday feeling is starting to spread at the office. People are working to finish their tasks for the week; register activities from the field and plan new ones for next week, preparing financial reports to donors, follow up projects, plan the visit for a group of co-workers from Academic Work coming here the 12th of…