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Jack and his friend in class here at Living Compassion. Jack was supposed to go to Grade One this year, but his parents could not afford the school fees. Instead of just sitting at home, he has continued coming to school at Living Compassion. He loves playing football.

Our cute faces for this week are students from Malila's class. Healthy and cute!

Blessing, one of our Grade Nine students at Twabo Private School, came very early in the morning to the Living Compassion house to say hi before going to school.

Some of the team members from the kitchen sorting peanuts in readiness for Friday's peanut butter rice.

Natasha in the kitchen area preparing soup to add to the rice and egg meal.

Juliet getting ready to feed our little ones in the dining hall.

Our little ones lining up for lunch. The children are from Teacher Beatrice's class here at Living Compassion.

Ruth during lunch break preparing veggies for supper at home. She takes care of her siblings and is a mother to them.

Our two members of the team doing one of the things they do so well, stirring the nshima in style while singing.

Zilose cleaning one of the huge pots at the wash area.

Our cute, happy, and healthy students from Twatemwa Primary School here in Kantolomba are the faces of the photo of this week.

Brenda and Zilose in the dining room dishing out lunch.

Meet siblings Eunice and Peace, who are Josephine's children. Peace is now a big boy and has joined us as a student in Teacher Susan's class. He loves playing with the ball at the playground here.

Euginia looking elegant and beautiful in a chitenge dress as she cleans windows. Euginia is a mother of four, a grandmother of ten, and is also a great-grandmother. She is one of the older members of the team and has been with Living Compassion since the beginning.

Cute little faces of Kantolomba waiting for lunch.

A group of parents whose children are going to Twabo School pose for a photo at the foot of Kantolomba Hill. The parents were excited to see their children off to a private school for the first time and danced as the little ones boarded the bus. Some people were amazed and stopped to watch.

Our new Twabo students pose for a photo at Twabo Private School.

Martha clearing some grass on the pitch where the little ones play football.

Even the grown-ups play the famous iciyenga that is played by many children here in Kantolomba. Here Juliet and Charity play on the veranda while everyone who was clearing the surroundings wait for the rains to stop.

Our cute faces of Kantolomba! All are students of Living Compassion.

Our very own Esther Banda. This is her room in Luanshya, where she has gone for college.

Our girls at the boarding house and in the photo are Rachael, Silvia, Memory, Esther, and Rachael's mum, who accompanied us to Luanshya when we took the girls to college. The girls are will be training at a nursing school. Their was so much excitement!

Theresa and Silvia at the boarding house.

Rachael in her room on her bed at the boarding house. She was so happy that she was going to start college at last!

Memory helping the girls make their beds. It was so exciting we spend some time with them helping them to settle in.

Memory Banda enrolled at Nkana School of Education. She is going to train as a teacher for three years and was so happy to report on her first day. Here she is outside the school premises.

Our first photo just after arriving at the boarding house in Luanshya.

The little ones enjoying lunch time.

Our two college girls Mirriam and Silvia are here with us for a short holiday before going back to school on the 7th of January. They tell us that they did practicals at Mpongwe Hospital and have learned a lot of things on how to treat patients. We are proud of them.

Our cute little faces of Kantolomba sit in the shade as they wait for lunch.

Natasha is very happy after checking the results and finding that she has made it to Grade Ten.

Some of our Grade Nine students.

Some of the team members clearing grass around the playground area. Happy new year to all!

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.