I wanted to spend my rest day in Lusaka to take a look at the Palabana Childrens Village, the village that is built by the Pola van der Donck foundation, a short distance outside of Lusaka. Because of a not working phone number I couldn’t get in touch with the manager of the Children’s Village, so I decided to go looking for it myself. After a lot of questions, and a lot of biking, and even a ride in a police car, I found myself in front of the entrance of the Palabana Children’s Village. Because I was not announced, people did not really know what to do, but finally the supervisor was called in, and he showed me around the village.
Several crops are grown, there is a shop where you can by the products the make, and there is a machine t make corn-flower. The children go to school outside the village.
The supervisor showed me the Martin-clinic, named after the brother of Pola van der Donck. This clinic has recently been finished and will service the children and personnel of the village as well as the people from the neighboring villages.
It looked al very well maintained and managed, it was what I had expected from the info the Pola van der Donck foundation had provided.
Being past the three-quarter-mark of the Tour, I would like to encourage everybody once more to donate some money to the Pola van der Donck-foundation, it is absolutely well spent. See my homepage for the details of how to transfer money.