The group at Victoria Falls (Hope--back row, middle right, pink shirt-1 month ago)
Phillip Habeggar, childhood friend, leading sermon on Solomon (1 month ago)
Namwianga Clinic
Mosquitto net covered bed with additional visitor. This is how Hope sleeps :)
Group having devotional in the morning. Hope is the girl in the green shirt in the right lower corner
Decorations for the George Benson Christian College graduation ceremony
Today four of our students and myself piled into a truck with two other Zambian medical providers to finish off the national measles campaign week. Every day we have sent four or five students out into surrounding villages to administer the measles vaccine to all kids between the ages of 6 months and 14 years old. Over the course of this week around 4,000 shots have been given. Our students are now very experienced in giving shots. What a blessing to work alongside the Zambian nurses and clinical officers and learn from them. They have been great this week to teach our students how to give a record number of shots in record amount of time…safely. (posted about a month ago)
holding class outside because there was no electricity (about a month ago)
additional hospital they worked at (about a month ago)
Every Thursday night the girls get together for Bible study and to share their lives. Hope is the 3rd from left in back row. Posted 2 weeks ago
Clinic day
Walking to the villages
holding class outside because there was no electricity (about a month ago)
additional hospital they worked at (about a month ago)
Every Thursday night the girls get together for Bible study and to share their lives. Hope is the 3rd from left in back row. Posted 2 weeks ago
Clinic day
Walking to the villages
We want to give our students the most immersive experience possible, but some things hinder that…fans, electricity, flushing toilets, electric ovens, american food, motored transportation…just to name a few. So we made it possible for students to spend a night out in a village with a Zambian. They went out in groups of 3-7, depending on how many the Zambian family could host. The girls all got to stay with one of the aunties from the Havens. The boys all stayed with Patrick, one of the night watchmen.
The experience began with out students walking out to their village while carrying their food and water for the next 24 hours (walks varied from 25 minutes to 2 hours). Once at the village, they learned to cook, went and got water from the nearest pump, played with children, sang around camp fires, ate nsima for every meal and hunted snakes.
They spent the night in the hut, and woke the next morning early enough to bathe, cook breakfast, eat, and make the walk back in to the Havens by 7:00 am, when the aunties begin their shift.
The experience began with out students walking out to their village while carrying their food and water for the next 24 hours (walks varied from 25 minutes to 2 hours). Once at the village, they learned to cook, went and got water from the nearest pump, played with children, sang around camp fires, ate nsima for every meal and hunted snakes.
They spent the night in the hut, and woke the next morning early enough to bathe, cook breakfast, eat, and make the walk back in to the Havens by 7:00 am, when the aunties begin their shift.
Every Friday night that we have been at Namwianga we have spent it at the Merritt’s singing. This past Friday night, instead of going to their house we went out to “The Rock” and had a campfire, ice cream, popcorn, singing, and star gazing. (about 2 weeks ago)
Saturday was a free day. The students were able to sleep in, we had a relaxing breakfast, and then after packing a sack lunch, we loaded up and drove to Chris’s Farm. A group of our students came upon this farm a couple weeks back and described it as “Heaven on Earth.” So, we did our research and turns out that the Calder’s know Chris. We were able to convince them that a group of 26 college students and 5 adults would be great guest for them to host at their pool. And that is just what we did. We spend the day swimming, ultimate frisbee, picnic lunch, bellyflop contest, and relaxing. It was a great getaway for our students to have a no pressure day to rest before we make a long trip to north Zambia next week. (about 2 weeks ago)
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