Day 2 - by Amitesh Aggarwal

The second day in sunny Botswana had all the ingredients of a wonderful start to the project - warm welcome by the hosts, a leaisurely walk to the downtown, browsing the national museum and lunch at Bimbo's. A perfect setting for us to kickstart our project, we met as a team and planned out the agenda for meetings with the focus groups on Friday. The day ended on a perfect note with a night at the theater. The serio-comic play we saw was about the ground realities in southern Africa vis-a-vis the dictatorial regime in Zimbabwe. This was portrayed thru ethnic tensions between the Botswanans and the illegal immigrants from Zimbabwe into Botswana - a poignant reminder to some of our own conflicts back home in US.