Chole – poor but spectacular.

Imagine an environment – green, fertile, bordering a lake with limitless supplies of water, having ‘moonscape’ granite hills and friendly, hardworking people. Why is this not a land of ‘milk and honey’ and a tourist paradise? But this is Chole, twenty five miles from Mwanza but ‘light years’ away from the developments in the city. There is no road and only 4×4’s can get there with difficulty. This is Africa of our Zambia days, and of decades before that, but with two major differences – HIV and the ubiquitous mobile phone!

It is in Chole that Busega Scotland and another local NGO, called CODEHA (Community Development and Humanitarian Assistance), are considering our second, and an agriculture-based Family Support Project, with the Chole Women’s Group. There is a local mission hospital, that may agree a health insurance scheme, and Chole is close to Kalwande, where our motor mechanics students are in college.

 

 

Busega Scotland has good connections with the area and we had lunch with the parish priest!

There is a clear need to support the Chole community and work is underway to see if, along with CODEHA, we can develop a viable project. This may be our biggest challenge yet but what a difference Busega Scotland could make.