Driving South

After stuffing our backpacks into the rear alongside about a dozen others, we are last to get on the bus. We take seats at the front, just behind the driver and soon pick up some passengers on route. Those of us who got on first were all white, mostly students, volunteering at one of the two sites further south. But the two or three passengers we collect are black, some of the staff who work at the sites and who may have travelled great distances. With Namibia being so vast (twice the area of Britain) but a population of just 4 million (less than half of London) people are used to travelling far for work.