Outreach, Wisconsin Team, and Holidays

Outreach, Wisconsin Team, and Holidays

On Saturday morning at 4:30am we bid farewell to the team of 12 from
Neenah, WI. What a great time we had with them! They provided a
variety of helps, from organizing the Village container that had
clothes, shoes, books, etc to passing out shoes to all the children to
organizing supplies at the school to helping with the Outreach to the
children at the Green Farm. It was a special team because there were
not only loving adults who enjoyed being with the children, but a
family with their 5 children came and it was a joy to see the American
and Zambian children becoming friends and playing together. We expect
to see some return visitors from this team!

The Outreach to the Green Farm was organized by Kimberly, Kamau, and
Dick. They set up like a carnival with all kinds of games and
activities. Some of our children went. They helped with the games,
translating for the visitors, did a couple of musical dances, and a
skit. Dick did a teaching, and he is great with children and of
course speaks their language. It was held in their new preschool
building area that has a nice fenced yard, and modern toilets. (that
is not always available everywhere you go here) Although the focus
was for the children at the Green Farm, the word got out and many
children walked over 2 miles to come from the Nyrienda Farm. There
were over 100 children present. Everyone came home tired but happy
from the event.

Today I looked out of my verandah and saw a line of kids carrying
bags, headed to Kamau's house. He was transporting over half of our
children to the social worker's office in Chibombo where the children
meet their relatives to go for 1-2 week visits during this holiday
month. We usually don't let the children go in December since it is
one of the hunger months, and many of the people do not have food for
the children then. We will have to have a movie night or something
special for the kids who remained in the Village. It will be a quiet
week for us which is nice to have now and then.