ELENA & RICHARD, WELCOME ON BOARD!

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Olgas’s is pleased and excited at the addition of two new members to our group! At the beginning of March the Italian civil servant volunteers Elena Colombo and Richard Sonsino arrived in Livingstone and they will stay with us for a year. Richard, graduate in Architecture, will help Olga’s management, dealing with the project’s in communication and maintenance. While Elena, a graduate in Psychology is going to work mainly at the Youth Community Training Centre supporting the school’s administration and also keeping the link between Olga’s and YCTC. There is another new surprise for all the Olga’s friends but you will find more information about it in the next week post. Keep in touch with us!

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(ITALIANO)
Tutta Olga's è contenta ed eccitata per l'aggiunta di due nuovi membri al nostro gruppo! All'inizio di marzo i servizio civilisti Elena Colombo e Richard Sonsino sono arrivati ​​a Livingstone e rimarranno con noi per un anno. Richard, laureato in architettura, aiuterà nella gestione di Olga's, in tutto quello che riguarda la comunicazione (sul web e sulla carta stampata) e nella manutenzione dei locali esistenti mentre Elena, laureata in Psicologia lavorerà principalmente presso lo Youth Community Training Centre a sostegno dell'amministrazione della scuola e per mantenere stretto il legame tra Olga e YCTC. Vi è un'altra nuova sorpresa per tutti gli amici di Olga's ma potrete trovare altre informazioni su questa bellissima notizia nel post della prossima settimana. Seguiteci

Double birth celebrations at Olga's

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At Olga's we are celebrating a great event: Mishongo and Giuseppe have become the proud parents of Liseli and Gerardo. All relatives in Italy, the staff, work colleagues and all the friends currently in Zambia, those in Italy and those in other parts of the world welcome with joy the birth of the two babies. Welcome to the world!
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World Cup Spaghetti

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Ignoring the event that's "Taking over" South Africa would be irreverent, so we at Olga's have made arrangements so that our guests can follow the Football World Cup. We have therefore set up a confortable TV corner where fans can support their team but we have also concocted a special dish fit for the occasion. This dish is a fusion of flavours from the world's northern and southern hemisphere: the unmistakable taste of San Marzano tomatoes, the flavour of olive oil, the aroma of oregano combine with the exotic delicacy of crocodile meat cooked in South African wine into a sauce for traditional italian spaghetti. A taste from around the world!
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...today there's something new at Olga's

We had laid the first stone of what is to become Graziella's garden, the new arrangement of the area in front of the restaurant which at the moment is not in use.
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This is a small contribution to Olga's project promoted by a group of friends of Graziella, Tiziana' sister (Tiziana being currently in Livingston for this reason) who died a year ago. The garden will feature some areas paved with local stones with picnic tables of different size.
Here costumers will be able to surf the Net using the existing wi-fi connection while enjoying a pizza or a tiramisù in the shade of the mango trees. There will also be some playground equipment for children: a sand pit, a swing and a see-saw. And naturally a great variety of colourful flowers. There is not better way to commemorate Graziella, a passionate gardener who dedicated many years of her life to working as a psychologist with disabled children.

Watch Olga's and YCTC video on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1NkLjQcPeM

CeLIM MEETING (26.09.2009)

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The 26^th of September Zambia Celim Crew met in Lusaka for the Celim Meeting. It was a good moment to share the different experiences about the various projects in Zambia and it was the moment to thank Michela, Lucia and Gabriel because they are about to conclude their work experience in Zambia.

All Olga’s Team thank Gabriel for the extraordinary time he spent at Olga’s and wish him a safe journey to Brazil…. Grazie!!!

For more info; www.celim.it

Sharon and Anaiawa YCTC students in Catering

Sharon making pizza dough at Olga's

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As soon as the school holidays of the Catering Course of the YCTC started the students Sharon and Anaiawa joined our kitchen staff for a 1 month work experience.

Both were recommended by their lectures as being the best students of the term and therefore were given the chance of applying everything they learned at the course in a real and busy restaurant of Livingstone: Olga’s Italian Corner.  The idea worked out so nicely that Olga’s will keep welcoming more students that are on the holiday period to join our kitchen. This is exactly how Olga’s and the YCTC work together, combining theory and practice in one big Project!

The lessons will be back this Monday the 7^th of September and also Sharon and Anaiawa will leave us to keep the focus on the studies! Thanks girls for the support and keep studying!

Happy Birthday Olga’s!

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After a tough and long year of work here we are completing 1 year of Olga’s Project. Thanks everybody who ever contributed for the success of the Project and keep up the good work!

Picture: Silembo, Beppe, Gerald, Brandina, Peter, Esnard, Talent, Conceptor, Jonas, Minu and Gabriel

Pieces of our Guestbook

After almost one year since Olga’s opened we could not find a better way to demonstrate people’s impressions about our food and project than sharing with you pieces of our guestbook! Here we go!

16/12/2008

“I’m so glad to have found out about Olga’s Project, I’ll certainly be including it in my recommendations to Lonely Planet! Happy to support such a worthy cause in return for a delicious dinner and some Christmas shopping! Thanks for all you do, keep it up! Hope to be back soon!”

Tess Dornfeld, Owatonna/Minnesota.

03/07/2009

“Best place to eat in all of Zambia! You got to live the food, the cause and the big orange oven. I can’t wait to come back! God bless.”

Jack, USA

13/07/2009

“Awesome project, lovely people and probably the best pizza in Southern Africa – I will be recommending to anyone who comes this way!

Adam, England

Welcome to the team Gabriel and Jonas!

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Olgas’s is pleased and excited at the addition of two new members to our crew! On the beginning of May the Brazilian volunteer Gabriel Govoni left the CeLIM’s headquarter in Lusaka and joined us for a period of 6 months. He is taking an active role in managing Olga’s side by side to the already well know manager Giuseppe. Also recently the half Italian-half German CeLIM volunteer Jonas Schuten arrived in Livingstone to complete his 3 months internship. Jonas is going to work mainly at the Youth Community Training Centre supporting the local educators and also keeping the link between Olga’s and YCTC alive!

THANK YOU!

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DO NOT GIVE ME A FISH BUT TEACH ME HOW TO FISH

A big thank you to Ilaria and Michele. For the past three years they have worked with passion and enthusiasm and greatly helped the Youth Community Training Centre to grow and Olga's to exist.

To know more about the activities of the YCTC and the plans of Olga's to expand, look at http://www.olgasproject.com/