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Thursday, May 21, 2009

This is where today's meeting is

Going to be held at 2 in the afternoon. It will be a meeting with some of the youth in the village. There is an office for youth development in that building. I think that this will be the first meeting of it's type in the village. I know that the girls and boys soccer teams and a youth theatre group should attend. If it is the kids first meeting it could be either chaotic or absolutely no life a all. Will fill you in. Girls soccer team is a little like a ship without a rudder at the moment. The coach is kind of occupied at this time. A side goal in this team is to work and support younger community members to become the next generation of leaders. This takes time and the finding of the right people. I thought the coach would be that type, but now? It is just how this stuff goes and why it usually takes a year to smoothen out the rough edges. On the other hand, the women's support group garden is already to the point of having to make it bigger. It took 3 days only. I guess the entrepeneur spirit lives. So that is the problem there, but a good problem. But the privitization movement is in full force. An ex Peace Corps volunteer colleage of mine from the Romanian days emailed me about not taking the socialist road with the garden. So, I must now change the privitization tag to something more like, hoping for an evolution into a Co-op world of harmony. If that happens then the trust is back. So thanks John for helping me to look at it a little more clearly. Also that 'co-op' has some of the old Romanian ring to it. I wonder if it will fly here in Namibia.

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