First Day at the Office

On Sunday we did very little, as everyone else was at church. Martha and Opa didn’t get back to their home until 8.45pm. We read books and washed our clothes by hand.
On Monday morning we went back to the bank and, after going through four separate queues, Kate finally got her travellers cheques! J Then we went to the office of Adopt-A-Person for the first time (luckily it’s only about five minutes walk from Auntie June’s house). There are five volunteers here full time, two men from Malawai, Peter and this really jokes guy whose name we haven’t been able to catch yet, and three women, Anna, Thebi and Lee, and well as Martha when she’s around. We had a chat about what we would be doing with the charity, and then were taken to Old Naledi, the slum area of Gaborone. There about fifty kids were given food (normally it is over one hundred but because they were late that day there were less children). The charity goes to Old Naledi every day, so this is the area in which they have seen the most marked fall in mortality rates of the children since they have been getting at least one square meal a day.