It’s amazing to bump along red dirt roads in a safari vehicle converted to mobile library, watching women carry baskets of bananas on their heads, and seeing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory or The Rainbow Fish in the book bins on the vehicle....
Volunteering in Zambia
After a long online search, using Google maps for close-ups of the area where The Book Bus is located, I booked our accommodations in Kitwe where we would volunteer for two weeks. Kitwe is a mining city in northern Zambia, located in the Copperbelt, not far south from the border with Congo.
BOOKS: A Window to the World
Zambia’s Book Bus
On the way back to the Book Bus compound, Kelly said, “You will want to see Victoria Falls while you are here. And, you know what? I have some funds left over in our budget. Let’s take some of the kids!” So a few days later we pick up 25 children at the community centre, in the Book Bus and take them on a field trip of their lifetime. These children live 10 KM from Victoria Falls but they have never seen it.