Since our return, Temba has met with Linda Shephard, a representative of PEPP Incorporation from the United States of America. They would like us to send them our profile and have expressed the desire to visit the Project Site on the next assignment to Zambia. Temba was also featured in the Education Post of 2nd January 2010.
A meeting with representatives from Dulux Zambia, Lillian Foundation Lusaka office, as a follow up to a meeting held in the Netherlands with a representative from the Amsterdam office, PUM-Netherlands through their Lusaka Office and U.T.H Peadiatric Department of Excellence for a possible partnership , Hetty Foundation-Netherlands.
We have had meetings with a representative from La Farge (the largest cement manufacturer in Zambia), they have pledged to donate 600 bags of cement towards the construction of the mothers’ shelter and an orthopedic workshop.
Discussions for placement of a physiotherapist are still under way, we hope to conclude this issue with the Head of Department at the Healthy Ministry Headquarters.
We have also discussed with PUM and other interested parties for a possible placement of physio volunteers and we await for their response.
We had a meeting with Mr. Glen Allison and Mr. Farrow is expected to visit MYCEPA Site in June 2010.
Another expected visitor is Mr. Dafydd Hughes from Wales. He has been a Headmaster at a Special Needs School for over 22 years and is about to retire.
Mr. David Scott will be in the country with a group twenty people, among professionals, therapists, parents, teachers and other interested parties, they arrive in chisamba on the 12th July 2010 around midnight and leave on the 15th July 2010. They are bringing some special equipment for the orthopedic workshop which they hope to fit in if the building will be ready.
A program for their visit is being prepared and you will be informed of the details at a later date.
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