Update

Despite a rather frustrating couple of weeks with multiple vehicle set-backs and delays, we’re continuing to very much enjoy our time in Zambia and can’t quite believe we’ll be home in less than 6 weeks!

All going well, we should be back out in the villages with a fully-functional Land Rover at the end of next week, and just squeeze in 4 more sets of clinics before we leave.  We’re both desperate to get out and see more patients, partly because we get a bit bored stuck in Livingstone, but mostly because we know there are so many patients out there to be seen.  But we’re managing to make the most of our time in town and are getting stuck into the ‘charity development’ side of things.  Once you dig beneath the surface of somewhere like this it’s amazing how many other charities and NGOs are quietly working away.  There’s some definitely possibilities for future partnerships which is really exciting.

After having three other UK volunteers here in Zambia with us over the past couple of months, we waved goodbye to the last one on Monday.  So it’s just me and Dave for the next four weeks, before we’re joined for our final week by three other doctors who will take over the clinics once we’re gone.

It definitely feels like we’ve entered the final phase of our trip and we’re really starting to look forward to coming home.  But when we think that we’ve got as long left here in Zambia as we had on the cruise ship or in Kosovo, we know our adventures are not over yet.