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Pauline dishing out rice into buckets for easy carrying to the dining hall. The rice is served with an egg for each student.

The little ones at the wash area while waiting for their lunch.

Natasha, little Edna's proud mum, loves her work so much, for it has helped her in raising her little ones Edna, six, and Joe, four.

Our cute faces for this week are Masauso and Phillip, who are in Veronica's class. They are ready to go to Grade Three, but their parents can not afford the fees. Instead, they come to class each day at Living Compassion.

Smiling cute little ones from Malila's class.

Jack helping himself with some water at the drinking station.

Some of the cooking staff preparing veggies.

Little ones waiting for lunch.

Joyce Makina, Felistus Chisanga, and Blessing Kabwe at Theresa's house.

Little Edna Phiri looking well and cute at Theresa's house.

Grade Five students from Twatemwa School enjoy library time at Living Compassion before going for lunch.

Little Enocent reading an English sentence. He is a Grade Three student at Twatemwa School.

Jackline, one of our volunteers, buying buns for her breakfast from our outdoor tuck shop.

Some of the team members prepare peanut butter using our traditional mortar and pestle made of wood. The peanut butter is prepared in advance because the process takes a long time. Here, the preparation is starting on Tuesday for the peanut butter to be used on Friday.

Pauline carries a bucket of nshima from the kitchen area to the dining hall. Pauline is a mother of six and has been with the team for some years now.

Teacher Beatrice's class singing one of the famous Genki songs.

Fetching clean water from the Living Compassion tap, Older Foster and Charity sing lovingly about the precious commodity.

Joseph with his friends after reading in the library.

Our Grade Nine girls from Twabo School came by to say hello, and Memory had fun taking their photo before they went home.

Beatrice in class her with students. She just loves teaching and being at Living Compassion with friends.

Juliet sorting beans. She is a mother of three and the granddaughter of Marget, who was our caretaker years back before she retired.

Little Musatelo, who is in Malila's class, is five years old and is a very bright boy. He would love to be a teacher just like Teacher Charles when he grows up.

John, our hedge cutter, busy clearing a hedge.

Brenda at the kitchen area opening a 25-kilogram bag of mealie meal for the preparation of nshima.

The little ones playing on the veranda during break time.

The weather is getting warmer each day here, and this rooster is taking shelter in the shade.

Regina stirring the nshima.

Little Ben going home with his lunch box of nshima and beans.

Our cute faces for this week are Maipambe and Christin, little ones from Malila's class.

Monica and Juliet cutting just some of the veggies for lunch.

Little Ennocent and his friend Brian enjoy a snack called "Jiggies" during breaktime.

Some of the team members sorting eggs. The woman on the right is the farmer in Luanshya who we buy our eggs from.

Our new outside toilet taking shape.

Audria with her grandchild. The mother of the baby is Audia's third-born daughter, who came visiting from Lusaka.

Veggies on display at Kantolomba market. The veggies cost 2 kwacha per bunch. A family of eight has to pay 10 kwacha or more just for lunch.

The ladies helping each other washing dishes.

Some of our team members sweeping and mopping the corridor. Cleaniness is our motto here, and Living Compassion is a shining example.

Older Foster, Doreen, and Jowen before going into the dining hall for lunch. Doreen is Prisca's first-born daughter. She is a mother of four and came to visit her mother.

Jackline demonstrates how we sweep the floor using local brooms made of a grass called ichipyango.

These are African eggplants, which we call impwa. It is cut, boiled until soft, and eaten with our staple food, nshima.

The team fetching water for cooking.

Our very own Susan looking so radiant, with her little cousin Jane.

The team pose with their buckets and brooms after a day's work.

Veronica helping Euginia do her home budget. She helps around because she is very good with math and is currently studying accounts in her spare time.

Some of our girls in the program during pod time. This is Theresa and Memory's English class.

Maxwell and his friend hang out after lunch. For them it's play time, as schools have closed.

Our cute face for this week is little Gloria who is in Teacher Susan's class. Before Gloria was accepted in the program, she was malnourished, her father had just passed on, and her mother was very ill. Gloria today is a healthy happy girl, and she runs around a lot playing with friends. She is looked after by her fifteen-year-old big sister.

Cute face of Elizabeth with Theresa.

Buckets of clean water waiting to be collected at the Living Compassiion tap by a member of the community. The well is helping a lot of people here, now that the main water company cannot supply enough water due to inadequate rainfall.

Doris posing for a photo while singing a song about how she is happy and grateful to Living Compassion for the wonderful life she is living today.

Euginia dishing out the nshima from the hot pot in the kitchen area. All those buckets are used for carrying food to the dining hall.

Students come to do extra lessons with us during their mid-term break. Here they do a math exercise which tutor Charles prepared.

Peter, our latest student who is doing carpentry at Mushili Skills Center. He is a father of five and lives right here in Kantolomba. He is so happy to be learning a skill.

John playing with his toy bicycle while waiting for lunch.

The little ones sit and wait for lunch. Schools have closed, and many children are coming to have lunch. To help them keep quiet while the girls in the program are studying, we keep them in one classroom and tell them stories.

The women sweeping as part of cleaning the area surrounding Living Compassion.

These cute faces of Kantolomba are little ones in Susan's class. They just love to have their photo taken!

The little ones enjoy their lunch of nshima with soya chunks and green veggies. Yummy!

Pauline doing it in style, preparing a huge pot of rice.

A cute photo of our team memebers Emelda, Malila, and Memory.

Jackline starting with the nshima.

Charles and Eugenia sitting in the sun during breaktime. The weather is still chilly.

Our little genius Edna Phiri. She came out number one in class after doing the end-of-term tests. We at Living Compassion are very, very proud of her. Hurray!

Mother and daughter, Natasha and Edna Phiri. Mother was so proud of her daughter.

This is our traditional pestle and mortar which we use to pound groundnuts. To do all the pounding in time, we have three mortars and do the pounding three days in advance.

A huge pot of veggies in the dining room ready to be dished out to the many hungry children of Kantolomba. The veggies are called Chinese cabbage. They are boiled in salty water, tomatoes, and onions and are taken with nshima.

The little ones from Malila's class having their egg and rice lunch.

Martha and Eugenia at the kitchen area with chef caps on, ready for the day's cooking. It is always a joy to them to cook for the children here at Living Compassion.

Cute faces of Kantolomba, siblings Edna and Martha with Theresa.

Chiluba, a Grade Three student at Twatemwa Primary School, writing a word on the board during an English spelling competition between Living Compassion and Twatemwa students here. Living Compassion won the competition.

Audria with her daughters Christabel and Dorcus.

Malila and Beatrice, our two cute Living Compassion tutors.