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• Abu Camp introduces baby elephant, Warona
  Abu Camp, located in Botswana's pristine Okavango Delta, is proud to announce that Shireni, one of the Camp's leading elephants, gave birth to her third surviving calf, a healthy female, at 22h05 on t... Read more
• Cowboy Cliff - In Memorandum.
  In Memorandum - Cowboy Cliff.
  
  Anyone who has been on the Book Bus in Livingstone in the past 3 years will know of Cowboy Cliff. Either through our visits to his preschool and/or through his informati... Read more
• Book Buses, Crowded Buses & just Plain Crazy Buses
  The last week of Bookbus in Livingstone coincided with the general election here in Zambia. Campaigning, which mostly seems to involve driving around in cars with “bad quality” speakers on top, shouti... Read more
• Puppets, Shakers and Chopsticks!!
  The last few weeks on board the Book Bus have really demonstrated that a great variety of skills are welcome and a bit hit with the children and the project. We have had a professional puppeteer as on... Read more
• Holiday Fun Continues!!
  The second two weeks of holiday club have been just as fun and rewarding as the first two. For the third week we visited Zweilopili Centre of Excellence. This is not exactly a school but a centre wher... Read more
• Time for Holiday Club!!
  Now it’s school holiday time in Zambia we are doing week long holiday clubs and so far the first two weeks have been amazing. The first week we went to a school, called Chilileko (blessing) right on t... Read more
• 10 reasons to go to Livingstone-Zambia!
  1) Mosi oa tunya- 'the smoke that thunders', otherwise known as Victoria Falls. It's simply spectacular!
  2)The Book Bus!- working with local children reading books and creating art inspired by them, w... Read more
• Meheba magic
  The 6 week Meheba UNHCR settlement project is a special Book Bus experience and one that proved to be an unforgetable time for the volunteer crew. The camp is enormous and comprises of many small well... Read more
• Just another day shopping in Zambia!
  For the next few blogs I’m not going to write about schools or the Book Bus but about some of my impressions of everyday life in Zambia! I have been living and working in Zambia for over 2 years now a... Read more
• 84 Fish Headbands (with streamers - no less!!)
  Last year during the final few weeks of 2010 we started visiting a small community project called Zwielopili. The, now retired, deputy head of Nakatindi, Mr Mwiya, started the project in 2 small grass... Read more