Hi,
Its been a pretty busy few weeks with us heading up to Lusaka last week for project shopping and research for our Agriculture sustainability project this year. Lusaka has developed so much over the past 5 years, its amazing the amount of money that is going into construction of shopping malls, offices and motels. The traffic is crazy and it takes hours to get from one side of town to the other these days. It really is a happening city and a very expensive place to stay. You can pretty much get anything you want or need it just takes a long time finding the shop which sells things you want.
Arriving home it was good to see that Mwandi had received some nice rains during the week and the river has risen quite alot. It wont be long now that the River is right up to the edge of the lawn at the front of the house. The maize crops generally are very patchy and stunted but I am sure there will be some harvest on most crops. We certainly have not had much rain this year (so far).
Big excitement all across Zambia during the Africa Cup the past few weeks
and on Wednesday evening Zambia won against Ghana 1-0 to make it into
the Finals. Sadly many people died in Zambia during the celebration and
many injured so we hope and pray that this Sunday in the final people
are careful and peaceful whether we win or loose. It is great excitement
for the country and people are putting great expectations on the
CHIPOLOPOLO players to bring the Cup to Zambia.
At the project we have finished distributing school uniforms, stationary and shoes to all the children we sponsor with Education Support in the community and everybody seems very happy to be at school with new items. We have an amazing amount of applicants for college and University this year. Really good to see but we don't have the funds to support all them through to their chosen school.
This week we have a team of paediatric doctors here from the States and they will be conducting health checks on all the children who attend the feeding program and preschool. The team will also be running First Aid Training for the staff at the OVC Project.
Our staff eating area is nearly complete and looking great and we are starting to make blocks for our recreation centre that we hope to start building in March.
A new class of 8 sewing students has started for the 6 month course and they are very enthusiastic and that is great to see. I pray that it continues and they can make the most of this short course.
Lucy is attending pre-school most days and really starting to settle into it. She is such a ratbag and is saying alot more words each week.This weeks word is NO!!! For the first few weeks of Pre-chool I would sit in with her, now I leave her and she is doing just fine. Lucy will be 2 at the end of February.
I have been teaching Sunday School for the past few weeks and its really good to be back teaching the kids. I have had around 20 each week and they are gradually getting used to my accent. Always a challenge.!!!!
I pray that you have a great week, thank you for your love and support.
Till next time,
God Bless you
Fiona ( Fred )
