Kimbilio

We’ve recently been at the Greenbelt Festival where we invited people to say where their ‘safe place’ was in their lives… see more pictures at http://www.flickr.com/photos/87430753@N07/

For those who don’t speak Swahili, Karibu sana means ‘ You are very welcome’ or literally draw close.  Indeed you are very welcome to the new Kimbilio website and blog!  It is exciting to finally be able to launch this site after several months of preparation.  Since Kimbilio got up and running in 2009 I have been writing a blog at www.lifeinlubumbashi.blogspot.com I suprised myself by actually enjoying the process, the idea until that point had filled me with dread, I couldn’t think of anything worse than exposing my life and my bad spelling for all the world to see!  It has however become an almost therapeutic activity and I have enjoyed meeting many people in Lubumbashi whom I would not have met if it hadn’t been for them finding my blog.  I’m planning to keep up the Life in Lubumbashi blog but it will become more what it says on the tin and most of the Kimbilio news and activity will be found over here.  I’m hoping that it will become less my blog and more of a Kimbilio community blog with other members of the team and the children we are supporting starting to write their impressions and stories, watch this space!  I would love to have more interaction on the blog with you, the readers and Kimbilio supporters.  If there is anything you feel we could add, change or you would like to hear more or less of, please please write and let us know!