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Our jovial and cute faces of Living Compassion Kantolomba for this week are the little ones from Teacher Susan's class. Oh, so beautiful!

Guess! Yes, this is Andrew, Josephine's son, now so happy and full of energy. He is so healthy and doing so well, as you can see, all because of the good nutrition he is getting here at Living Compassion.

Charity weeding. She is a mother of six and also a grandmother of one.

Little Christabel enjoying playing during break time. She and her friends are in Teacher Malila's class. When it's play time, they love to play Ukubuta (Mother), a game where girls play a mother's role in a home like cooking, washing, sweeping, and selling at the market.

Our beautiful mother Doris sorting beans. She is so joyful and funny. We love her and her joking.

Little Edna doing her homework at her house here at Living Compassion. A look at her books shows that she is doing well.

Little Humphrey enjoying a cup of our clean water after lunch. They say "Water is life," and indeed the clean water here at Living Compassion demonstrates how that is so.

Our very own retired Angela came to visit. She is now being taken care of by her daughter, who volunteers with us.

Martha and Mirriam sorting beans in readiness for Wednesday's lunch. Martha is now fully recovered and is doing just fine.

Little Francis enjoying his lunch. He is in Teacher Susan's class and loves playing football. He is an only child. Both his parents died of AIDS, and he now lives with his aunt and uncle.

Our lovely four college girls who are doing clinical medicine in Luanshya. Theresa visited them last Saturday at their boarding house. They are all doing well and send their love to all.

Stevania and Christin in their uniforms. They are repeating Grade Nine at Zora School.

Natasha in the kitchen area preparing tomatoes to be put in the veggies. She is a mother of two and the caretaker at Living Compassion.

Christin is now retired and came to Living Compassion to say hello to the team.

Little Edna in class writing the number three. She is six years old and wants to be a nurse when she grows up.

Siblings Eunice and Peace are our photo of the week, looking healthy and cute.

John busy slashing grass. With the heavy rains, vegetation is growing fast.

Beatrice with the students in her class. It is writing time and the children are busy writing numbers.

Our new Grade Ten students Elidah and Esnart in their bright new yellow uniforms. They came to Living Compassion to say hello on their way to an English competition at the school across the stream.

Sofia Mukuka, who is repeating Grade Twelve at Zora School.

Beatrice in class teaching.

Our cute faces of Kantolomba for this week, Little Mapalo and Bupe, sit and wait for their elder sister after having lunch. They look so adorable!

Meet our new Grade Eight students Felistus Chisanga and Onester Bwalya. They are at Twabo Private School, and we wish them all the best.

Another little cute face of the week is Kapembwa, who is in Teacher Susan's class. He wants to be a pilot when he grows up.

Vegetables being prepared in readiness for lunch. The greens are called Chinese cabbage.

Natasha, Emelda, and Florence trying to carry charcoal that the truck dropped off.

Some of our Grade Five students from Twabo Private School pose for a photo at Living Compassion.

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.