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Veronica and Martha share a light moment on Christmas Eve. We had a nice time singing songs, dancing, and sharing a meal.

Weeding to keep our surroundings neat and clean. Grass is growing fast as the rains are pouring almost everyday here.

Monica and her two children pose for a photo. The baby on her back was brought in to be fed.

Elias helping keep the hedge neat. When he is not busy in the library, he helps with other tasks.

Nshima being prepared.

Ann and Bertha sit outside on the veranda, going through a book borrowed from the library.

A view of part of Kantolomba, taken from the top part of Living Compassion

Our very own little cute faces of Kantolomba. They still keep on asking when Abena Jen and Mama Cheri will come to visit. We have tried to tell them that they have gone back to America, but they seem not to understand.

Our little ones lining up for lunch.

Our very own Onester Bwalya, who sat for her Grade Seven exams just recently, sits in class with Ann. She was learning BUSU on the iPad. The girls are excited about the lessons.

Waiting for lunch to be served, the little ones are kept busy in the dining hall. They sing songs while lunch is being prepared.

Emelda working at the top of the hill. She was joking and saying that she could bulid a house there and we would all call her the Queen of Kantolomba. The view up there is awesome.

Our little ones waiting in line for their turn to wash their little hands.

John busy using the slasher to clear overgrown grass on the lawn.

Emelda in the dining hall getting ready to serve lunch.

Natasha in the kitchen stirring soup for lunch. The soup is added to the rice and egg dish which is served on Tuesday.

Juliet, Charity, and Emelda sorting peanuts. The nuts are prepared for Friday's lunch.

Bibian and friends after library time. The girls are in Grade Four at Twatemwa Primary School here in Kantolomba.

Foster, our oldest member of the team, sorting nuts at the kitchen area. She is still strong and energetic.

Our beautiful cute faces of Kantolomba this week are from Beatrice's class.

Our little ones sing along to a Genki song that was playing on the computer.

Younger Foster helping sort nuts.

Sam, a Grade One student at Twatemwa Primary School here in Kantolomba. Sam is the son of Monica, one of the team members. Sam loves to play football, but he's unhappy that here in Kantolomba there are no proper fields or balls. The only spacious place is here at Living Compassion, and as Sam lives nearby, he and his friends come here to play. For a ball, they pick plastic and tie it together, then they kick it around.

Another member of the team has been born here at Living Compassion. This is the two-week-old grandson of our old retired Christin Chisenga. His mother Dorcus is now a member of the team. Dorcus replaced her mother after she retired and is now taking care of her.

Mirriam at the wash center making sure that the little hands are clean before they go into the dining hall for lunch.

Meet Theresa's cute namesake, who is in Teacher Memory's class here. She was camera-shy and when asked what she wanted to do when she grew up, she simply said "I want to be like my namesake Theresa."

Joyce Makina, one of the girls in the program. She came to the Living Compassion house yesterday to visit Theresa, who was not feeling well.

Peter in action. Our only carpenter doing what he knows best, keeping the surroundings neat and doing maintenance work.

Our usual cute faces of Kantolomba for this week are from Teacher Beatrice's class. Beautiful and joyful faces!

Lunch time at the property. The boys from Beatrice's class enjoy their nshima as a group. They love putting their food together and sharing it. In homes here in Kantolomba, people eat together from the same plate as a family.

Jackline stirring the nshima. Here in Kantolomba, this is easy and we are used doing it. In our homes we cook the nshima in smaller pots.

Pauline and Emelda preparing cabbage in readiness for lunch. The cabbage is boiled, then tomatoes and some oil is added. We eat it with the nshima.

Our girls, Loveness, Angela, and Susan, after our usual Saturday meeting. Loveness is going back to her school, where is writing her Grade Nine exams. We wish her all the best!

Our cute little faces of Kantolomba for this week, little Stella and Njavwa from Memory's class.

Onester, our only Grade Seven student of the thirty-five girls in the program. She is writing her national exams this week and we wish her all the best in making it to Grade Eight next year.

Little Bruce singing. He is now in Grade Two at Twatemwa School.

Theresa visited the girls in Luanshya last Saturday afternoon. The girls were so happy to see her, and everyone had a nice time. The girls showed Theresa all the tests they had been doing the past months, and Theresa was impressed that the girls are doing so well in school. Here are Mirriam and Silvia, who are in college.

Our two Grade Eleven students, Mary Mwanza and Mary Bwalya, helping sort beans after coming from school early. Grade Twelve exams started yesterday, and all Grade Eight, Ten, and Eleven classes will be on break until the Grade Twelves and Nines finish their exams.

Our little ones from Memory's class doing warmups.

Cutest smile from our little Olivier Tembo, a student in teacher Malila's class. She is six years old and lives with her grandmother here in Kantolomba. What a smile!

Ruth making a pot of soup in the kitchen. She is a mother of one and has been taking care of her siblings after her mother, Sofia, passed away. She has taken up the role of being a parent, which she has done so well for the past years.

Team work, working together to make sure the Living Compassion grounds look beautiful.

Malila and Memory in class with their students.

Emelda at the dishwashing center doing the dishes. She is the daughter of our retired team member Violet and is now volunteering in her mother's place. She is taking care of her two children and Violet in their home.

Lidya, a student at Twatemwa School, having lunch at Living Compassion.

Audria going to the dining hall to have her breakfast of buns and tea. She bought the buns from our little tuck shop.

Our women working. It's all about teamwork here at Living Compassion Kantolomba.

Little Silvia and Juliet smiling for the camera. The girls are neighbors and are in Grade Four at Twatemwa Primary School. They love reading in the library.

Our cute faces of Kantolomba for this week are students from Teacher Memory's class here at Living Compassion.

Our two girls Rachel and Esther. They just rewrote their Grade Twelve exams in subjects they did not do well in. The results are out and they did well. They are ready to go to college next year in January. Rachel wants to do nursing, while Esther wants to do teaching. Both girls are in the Girls Program.

Twins Jen and John, who were in Beatrice's class, are now in Grade One at Future Matters School here in Kantolomba. The twins are the last-born in a family of six other children who are sets of twins, too. Here in Zambia one is considered lucky to have two or more sets of twins.

Edna and her friend smile for the camera after lunch and school. Edna, on the right, is our very own Natasha's daughter. Edna and her parents live here at Living Compassion and take care of the place when we are not working.

Majority and other students from Twatemwa School line up to get their share at lunch. Majority is eight years old and is the fifth-born in a family of seven siblings. She is the daughter of Charity, a volunteer here at Living Compassion.

The women at the kitchen area sorting the nuts in readiness for Friday's peanut butter rice. One of them is our very own Euginia, who was in hospital a week ago but is back to work and feeling much better.

John, son of the late Ethel, doing some painting. He volunteers with Living Compassion, and the stipend he gets helps him with his brother's school fees.

Charles's class smiling for the camera.

Ann during lunch break. She is mother of six and is taking care of her sister's four children. Her sister Benadette was a volunteer but fell sick some years back, and Ann had to take up her place in order to take care of the children. Today Benadette is in the village with relatives and uses a wheelchair. Ann is a very good mum to the children, hard-working and a big help with tutoring.

Some of the writing that the little ones do in Memory's class. They are taught basics, and when the time is right they go to Grade One at Twatemwa School here in Kantolomba.

Busy drawing using the floor as a desk. The little ones in Beatrice's class enjoy drawing and coloring.

Memory in class helping her student Joyce read some English words. Joyce is now seven years old and is ready to go to Grade One next year.

Natasha in the kitchen area cooking soup for the rice and egg meal.

Younger Foster pounding nuts for Friday's peanut butter rice. The dish is good and nutritious.

Prepared nuts and eggs.

The most wonderful and cute smile of the week, from little Stella, who is Memory's class.

Juliet with a smile on her face, carrying eggs to be boiled. She is a mother of two and is taking care of her grandmother Margret, who retired. Juliet is hard-working, just like her grandmother.

Blessing posing for a photo at Theresa's house. She loves visiting Theresa on weekends.

Little Bony smiling for the camera in class. He is one of the best students in his class, and we hope that when he goes to Grade One, he continues to be the best.

Natasha sitting at the tap rinsing her chitenge in clean water. She is now the caretaker here at Living Compasion. She's the mother of two, a boy who's in Malila's class and a girl who's in Memory's class.

Zilo and Regina preparing nuts. They pound and seive them, then they pound them into peanut butter. It is used on Fridays, which is peanut butter rice day.

Grade Four students from Twatemwa School. Theresa's namesake with her friends pose for a photo after their meal.

Our cute little faces of Kantolomba for this week are from Beatrice's class.

Playing the game of Pick Paper Pick. The little ones scramble to pick up any piece of paper they find lying around the grounds. This teaches them the lesson not to throw paper on the ground.

Brenda singing as she pounds the nuts in a mortar. The women like to sing when working in the kitchen area.

Bruce having his lunch. He is so cute and loves hanging around Living Compassion and playing.