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The usual cute faces of the healthy little ones of Kantolomba.

Natasha doing some work in class. The girls are coming to the property each day for lessons.

Margret and Jackline doing the dishes.

Little Tina and her friend wait for lunch.

Onester and Loveness doing some work in class.

Students in the program having lunch.

Margret in the kitchen. She says she is proud to be one of the cooking staff and loves to cook for the children.

Little Christabel, Odria's daughter, is all grown up and looking cute.

Washing up at the wash area. Smart washes his little hands to go and have lunch.

Loveness and Natasha, our Grade 8 students, reading at the property. They are optimistic they will pass the test that they recently finished writing.

Audria, a member of the Living Compassion team, has ten children. Here are some of her seven girls. So cute!

Ruth and Natasha doing the routine cleaning of windows. Everyone has their turn doing the windows.

Onester, who is in Charles's class and now in the Girls Program, can read English perfectly. She did not get any formal education until she was enrolled here at Living Compassion. She has been in Charles's class ever since and she has proved learning from the teachers here pays off.

Prisca washing the hands of the little ones as they go in for lunch.

Florence gets help carrying the pot of beans to the dining hall for lunch.

Beatrice helping the kitchen staff wash up.

Cute faces of Kantolomba! Don't they look healthy?

Monica is a happy mum who enjoys cooking not only for the 1000 children of Kantolomba but also for her family. She is proud of her work and says she enjoys every moment of it.

Peter cutting shrubs to beautify the property, which stands out in Kantolomba.

The women sorting the beans in readiness for Wednesday's lunch. Beans are a favourite dish, not only for the little ones but also for many folks of Kantolomba.

Little Sam enjoying his lunch. He no longer wears his little blue boots, for they no longer fit him. His mum told us that she will get him a bigger pair. So cute!

Pauline on duty in the dining room, dishing out lunch to the little ones.

Is this fashion or what? No, this is Eddy and his friend. After reading a story about pirates, Eddy dressed up and pretended to be one. It was so funny! This also showed us that he was understanding what he was reading. He is in Charles's class.

Doreen is on break from school. Here she is with some students in class at Living Compassion. She was helping in Teacher Beatrice's class.

I went visiting at Audria's house yesterday to see Dorcus, who is not feeling well. I found the family having lunch, and guess who I found eating lunch at Audria's? Little Sofia, Ruth's daughter. So cute!

They say water is life and indeed it is. Here at Living Compassion we have it abundantly. This year is the 10th year of nonstop clean water!

Josephine with baby Peace when he came to have his feed. She is glad that the results that came out on Monday showed that Peace is free from HIV.

Waiting for their turn in line, the children patiently wait for their lunch to be served.

Eugenia busy serving lunch, one of the things she really loves doing at the property. She just loves serving the little ones, who call her Mbuya meaning Grandmother.

Government School students playing a game outside as they wait for their turn in the library. The property is full of children as early as 1000hrs because Government School is about to close and the teachers are busy marking the tests taken last week.

Natasha busy cleaning windows. They say that cleaniness is next to Godliness!

The cooks busy stirring the nshima in the kitchen. It is cooked by two people at a time.

A cute little face and hairdo! Meet little Lillian, who is student in Joy's class. She loves modelling.

Veronica talking to Ester and Mirriam about their exams. She was encouraging them and wishing them luck as they were going to take a math test.

Government School students having their lunch here at the property.

Posing for a photo. The cute faces of Kantolomba, as usual!

Pauline carrying a bucket of nshima to the dining hall for the children.

Ruth doing the dishes. Susan sits waiting to help carry the clean plates to the dining hall.

Little Sandra just finished her chunk of nshima and she was boasting how full and satisfied she was. She will just hang around the property and play.

Younger Foster and Susan in the kitchen preparing lunch for the team.

Beatrice in her class busy preparing for her pod.

Little Susan, who was in Beatrice's class, is now in Grade 1 at Government School. She was one of the bright students at Living Compassion and even at Government School she is doing very well. Her mum is very proud of her.

Joyce Makina, a Grade 7 student and one of the best students in the Girls Program, sitting in the library using the computer.

Margret cleaning the huge pot.

Bridge Walk fever is on here. Here, some of the Team members sing during lunch time. When asked, they say they are practicing.

Our Grade 8 girls ready for the end of term tests. Natasha, Christin, and Loveness pose for a photo before going off to school.

Ann and Joy relax after classes as they wait for lunch.

Veronica busy with the register. We are updating the register for the first half of 2017.

This week, water was in short supply in Kantolomba, and at the property we had long queues as early as 0400hrs in the morning. The community in Kantolomba are lucky to have clean water here at Living Compassion. They did not have to walk very far to collect the commodity. Here Eliadah is fetching water for her home.

Peter sweeping leaves from the rooftop of the hammermill building.

The women sorting the nuts in readiness for Friday's peanut butter rice.

Students from Government School in the library learning to read.

The little ones from Joy's class singing the well-known song "Heads and Shoulders" in the library.

Joseph in class writing the letter D.

Ester reading what is written on the board to the others.

A tree fell at the property last evening. It was lucky no one was hurt.

The tree trunk was rotten and had a hole inside.

Majority busy writing in class.

Remember Natasha Mizinga? She was one of the first 100 children in the Living Compassion program. She has grown up and is in Grade 10. She and her mother left Kantolomba when she was in Grade 5 after her father passed on, and now they live in Lusaka. Here she visits the property.

Joy with her students in the library using the computer.

The women sorting the beans in readiness for Wednesday's lunch.

Memory in class helping the little ones.

Look at that smile ("seka" in Bemba) from little Mary, who smiles by opening her mouth wide.

The women doing team work packing the charcoal which is used for cooking.

Our clean water. Yes indeed, clean water for all in Kantolomba!

Little cute faces of Kantolomba.

The little ones ready for the health team who came to give them deworming and vitamin tablets and check for malnutrition. I'm glad to report that our little ones came out 100 percent!

Little Theresa with her friend saying hi after having her lunch.

Big smiles for you from Kantolomba.

Soy chunks and tomatoes ready to be prepared for lunch.

Emelda and Florence preparing the veggies.

"I'm loving my work here at Living Compassion," says Emelda, with a lovely smile.

"It's chilly out here," says little Precious as she tries to warm herself in the sun.

Josephine in the library sorting the books.

Little Stella and her friends love to sing and dance. They stay at the property after classes and play around.

Cute little faces of Kantolomba, ever smiling for the camera.

The ladies sorting the groundnuts in readiness for Friday's peanut butter rice.

Boys will always be boys! Here they show off how they look cool.

After talking about Ethel's death, the team opened up and I could see smiling faces again.

Jackline busy cleaning the huge pot.

Students in the Living Compassion program listening to a story in the library. They just love story time!

A huge pot of nshima being prepared by the team members. This task takes two or three people to do.

The little ones playing on the hill at the property.

Memory helping a student in Ethel's class writing. Ethel is in the hospital right now.

A big smile and pose from Moses, a Grade Two student from Government School.

"I just got my lunch" says a student in Malila's class. So cute!

Doris writing her numbers in her book in Ethel's class.

Elias reading some words on the board in the library.

Joyce, a Grade 10 student, with her brother. They were going to school after lunch at the property.