Last Trip to Meheba

We just got back from our last trip to Meheba. It was actually our last trip to any of the camps, as we are almost finished with our work. Audrey has already technically finished working, and Nick’s last day is tomorrow. We travel to Tanzania for a week starting on Friday and then fly home on February 1. That is official now, confirmed right before we left for Meheba.

The Meheba trip was fairly eventful and there were a lot of “lasts”. We had our last long bus ride in Zambia, witnessed our last Meheba kitten births, went to the Road 36 market for the last time, etc, etc.

The kitten births were not completely unexpected because, as possibly mentioned previously on this blog, we have a cat factory in Meheba. On our last day there we know for sure that Mwane, the older female, gave birth to two or three kittens because we saw them. Sana, the daughter of Mwane, also probably had a litter that same day, but she disappeared into a hole in the ceiling to do her business. We think we heard some kittens up there, though.

Also on our last day in Meheba (and more important than cat babies, which are a dime a dozen), we had a party for the FORGE staff and friends so Nick could say goodbye. It was the first time we had had so many people together in a long time, so we took a group picture. This isn’t everyone, as some people were late, but it is a significant number of the staff and friends.



After the difficult goodbyes, in the last minutes of daylight that we would see in Meheba, a full rainbow arched over the compound. I guess it was time to leave. (I’m not making this up. See:


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In the next two weeks, we will post some final reflections on a couple things, as well as pictures from our vacation in Zanzibar.