In April eleven Academic Work colleagues from Sweden, Norway, Finland and Germany went to Zambia to visit Respone Network and the schools we are supporting. For two amazing days we visited five schools, met hundreds of children and slept in a tent in the middle of the African nowhere.

Malin, Emma, Cecilia, Susanne, Tiina, Helena and Anna outside Simbuni Community School

We brought jumping ropes and footballs as gifts to the school children

Some curious boys at Makuya Community School

 
Our camp

We also took the time to visit Botswana for two game-drive Safaris, where we saw many different kinds of wild animals, as..

 
..lions…

…crocodiles…

…and hippos!

As we were going home we got stranded in Johannesburg due to the ash cloud that was temporally obstructing the air traffic over Europe.  With a total delay of six days we were of course very delighted to come home!