The thirsty Basarwa children

I leave for an assignment with the Good Samaritans of Botswana Council of Churches (BCC) to deliver donations to Basarwa communities inside the CKGR. I am part of an entourage of 13 people comprising Reverends, church elders and NGO staff travelling in three 4X4 vehicles, which leave Gaborone for Khutse on a Monday afternoon.  The plan is to spend a night at Khutse Lodge and get into the reserve early morning of Tuesday.  Gugamma, at approximately 300 kilometres from Gaborone is the nearest Basarwa settlement inside the CKGR. 

Our entourage checks into Khutse Game Reserve Tuesday morning just before seven o'clock. Before long we are on the soft but mean sand of the Kalahari snaking our way deep into arid l andscape on the strictly 4X4 trails, with deliveries of basic necessities to the people inside the reserve.