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Biking for better Health in Zambia. Lianne, Jessica and Bill rode the Tour d'Afrique.

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Hello I’m Bill Nelems. I am a Thoracic Surgeon, living in Kelowna British Columbia. Some of my friends and family members have founded an organization called the Okanagan Zambia Health Initiative www.okazhi.org Log on to check us out. We support capacity building and educational needs of health care workers in Zambia. Our two focus areas are Lusaka the capital city and all of Western Province. The Tour d’Afrique www.tourdafrique.com began their annual trek from Cairo to Cape Town on January 16, 2010. On April 7, 2010, when they reached Lilongwe, Malawi, Lianne, Jessica and I joined them. We rode to raise funds that will be given exclusively to our organization. We will be paying for our own trip expenses. This blog hopes to catch the events of our trip………… The Tour d'Afrique reached Cape Town on May 15, 2010 completing our journey....

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Follow us on the Tour d'Afrique. Lilongwe, Malawi to Cape Town, South Africa.

Sunday, March 14, 2010

March 14, 2010 - Getting Ready!

March 14 finds Lianne and Jessica in Mongu, Western Zambia, where they have just completed teaching UBC - Okanagan students. Students spent 5 weeks there on a student elective rotation http://ubconursesinzambia.blogspot.com/
March 14 also finds me in Inuvik in the Western Arctic. We are all in training mode and we join the Tour d'Afrique April 7 in Lilongwe, Malawi
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