Thank you to the whole U.S. team for your Bridge Walk efforts! We are already putting the funds to good use here. Our apologies that we are not able to send photos as often as we wish. Electricity is still a major challenge for us here and we rarely have the power and/or the network to get photos back to the U.S. Thank you for your patience.
Docus and Audria collecting stones to prepare the site for the new water tank, one of the projects funded by the proceeds from the Bridge Walk. We are so excited for it to arrive!
JoAnne helping to bring in more stones.
We finalized the purchase of the tank and as it arrived, jubilation and ululation was the music filling the air.
The team was delighted and broke into song and dance when they lifted the tank into place. Our severe drought continues and our good fortune at having a good well means we are the only source of clean water for thousands in our community. Thank you to the whole U.S. team for helping us provide this third tank to store enough water for everyone.
With the Bridge Walk funds, we have also purchased the first two alternative cooking stoves! These stoves will use waste products from agriculture instead of trees (charcoal) for fuel. As in all of Africa, deforestation is a grave issue in Zambia, and we are looking for ways to cut down on the use of charcoal. Very exciting!
The third project we have been able to start thanks to the Bridge Walk is tree planting! Here is Rechel holding two tree seedlings.
These are the two types of trees that are planted in the nursery. The government is encouraging the planting of these two types on a large scale. A group of our young women is being trained at the nursery in how to plant and care for the trees. We will report as the project progresses.
Everyday activities at Living Compassion continue. Here is Memory after lunch, making sure that she marks all the books and prepares the next day's work.
Pricilla, who is in Charles’s class, is ready to go to Grade One next year at Twatemwa School right here in Kantolomba. She is an orphan and lives with her grandmother. They depend on the support of the Living Compassion community.
Meet Lazarous, one of the many children that grow up in the community of Kantolomba without enough food to eat each day. Living Compassion helps little cute faces like him by enrolling them in the program so that they get proper nutrition.
We end with wishing Zambia Happy Independence Day, which we celebrate on the 24th of October each year. Here is Baby Chimwemwe Theresa (Theresa’s granddaughter), who is now 18 months old. She says "Hello U.S. Team and Happy Independence Day!"