Dear Friends,
I hope your well and had a good weekend.
We are now experiencing cooler weather here in Zambia. Still compared to other years it is very mild but I know its going to come in allot cooler soon.
Our pregnancy is going well and I am becoming the size of a small whale !!! each day the past week I seem to have grown so much. I am now about 28 weeks and after a recent trip to south Africa we had a 4D scan and the baby is growing nicely.. I aim to head back to Australia around the first week of August, but I am taking each week as they comes. If i keep growing at the rate I am I wont fit in the seats on the plane !!!.
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| Lucy loves helping down at the farm |
Lucy is becoming quite the chatter box and loves going out "Tiger Fishing" with her daddy and helping down at the farm. Since pre-school was on mid term break a few weeks ago she is so happy to be back at pre-school each day. Lucy's new love is coloring in and Mummy and Lucy spend hours each day coloring in. Good thing Ruairidh brought her a few new coloring in books last week when he was up in Lusaka.
The river is dropping dramatically and Rury is loving it as there seems to be good fishing now out on the river. Each morning all the village fisherman glide past our house in their makoro's to head out and drop their nets in hope to catch some nice size fish to sell. The fish are still quite small that they are catching so all we hope is that the fisherman are using the legal size fishing nets.
Our Carpentry centre has been so blessed with awesome support enabling us to purchase industrial machinery for the centre. We are still in the progress of getting the machinery from South Africa to Mwandi but we are hoping to have it here within the next few weeks enabling us to generate income for the projects electricity and helping us produce some wonderful carpentry products for sales. We have been building a secure building to protect the machines and the roofing should be complete this week. We have now three phase power to the carpentry centre and its all go. What a wonderful blessing to have support to enable us to move forward with this program.
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| New addition to our Carpentry Centre |
Sewing club graduation was held last week of June with invited guests from different sectors of the community there to give the students their certificates and encourage them in their future endeavours. We are starting the new class of 14 students on Wednesday the 4th July. Very exciting to have many people interested in this new intake.
The 5 woman who are our first micro-finance program clients are doing well and after being monitored every few weeks we are seeing that their businesses are busy and they are making uniforms for a school out from Mwandi and some church choir uniforms.
The projects annual Blanket distribution happened in June as the cold weather hit. This time of year our children really suffer especially those who are HIV positive. Due to wonderful support with this program we were able to purchase 650 at Zambezi textiles in Livingstone and distribute to the most vulnerable children of the Mwandi,Skuzu and Sooka community.
Mubiana our store man recently went for some training in Livingstone and has come back with some good ideas to help us improve on our stores department.
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| OVC Garden |
One of our big worries during the winter period is that our vegetable garden gets hit by frost, thus far we haven't had any frost but the gardeners are keeping the area very wet and watering the garden very early in the mornings. The garden is looking amazing and we are seeing allot of different varieties of vegetables coming into fruit, although it seems we are a month later in production than previous years.
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I ask you continue to pray for our baby and my health remains strong through the last trimester, that the OVC Project receives continued financial support to keep our programs running.
May God continue to bless you all
Take Care
Fred ( Fiona )
