Tech stuff and simple beauty

We have finally left Lusaka and made the 4+ hour drive back to Sikalongo. On the way back we picked up Ba-Pwetenge, who will be invaluable in assessing some of the renovation​ suggestions for ZACU when we get to the Nahumba Missions station tomorrow.

I'm excited that I will finally get to travel to the first campus that will be renovated and opened. I am even more excited that I get to actually set up the system and survey the site so that I can make technical recommendations and help to plan for the future. I've been doing a TON of reconnaissance work and research on people, resources, technical solutions and brainstorming the development of a knowledge base that will serve as a foundation for the future IT department. I'm still going to visit several more schools in order to see what they do with the computers that they have. Zambia seems to have a serious deficit in computing skills, awareness and the personnel to help bridge that gap. The good thing is that the Zambian government recognizes this and is making a big push toward hiring more people to teach those skills.

I have continually amazed at the simple beauty of Zambia, be it in the people or the landscape. Below are some pictures of two Baobab trees, they can live to be over 2,000 yrs old. These two are probably young at about 300-500 yrs old. Also below is an amazing sunset that we saw on the drive to Sikalongo.