Simonga Village - March 2007
05 Apr 2007
The River Club and Simonga Village was honoured to receive a visit from the United States ambassador to Zambia, Carmen Martinez. This occurred after Peter Jones met the Ambassador at a meeting in Livingstone concerning the US President's emergency plan for AIDS relief in Zambia. During her busy schedule the Ambassador was met by the head of Simonga Village, Inonge Imosho, and a group of cheerful singing schoolchildren from the local school at the proposed site of the Simonga health post. The children had coloured in American flags which they waved enthusiastically in greeting!
The Ambassador toured the site and learnt of the progress that has been made and of the funding that The River Club had raised so far. She went on to tour two other projects run by The River Club in Simonga, namely the water project, supplying 50,000 litres of clean water each day to the villagers, and to one of the Elephant Pepper Project sites.
The ambassador with her husband and her staff later had an informal lunch at The River Club where they learned about other social development projects that the lodge has undertaken and hoped that there might be scope for future work together in the medical effort against AIDS.
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