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Ndola...The Copperbelt Province of Zambia
My first excursion out of Lusaka was to Ndola, a town in the Copperbelt Province of Zambia. We were travelling for the purpose of visiting a project which Catholic Mission supports – St Anthony's Children’s Village – and it was soooooo much more than expected.
Here’s the summary. I...
- Visited 8 communities / projects supported by either Children’s Mission or Propagation of Faith Funds ...
Business Trip part 3
I have taken a lot of buses on my quest through the African continent but I didn't expect this bus ride would ask the most me. Getting on the bus at 13 hrs and arriving the next morning at 8.30!!! Almost 20 hrs of Zambian horror including a bus breakdown, no dinner aand sleeping 1 hour on the ground in the bus. I am a tough guy but this is something I wouldn’t do again.
But ok, arrived as a broken ...
The End of the Road
... re okay for me to eat.
Since I was in Zambia toward the end of the dry season, there was not all that much in season and locally grown aside from the assorted greens. Sweet potatoes were just ending their season during my first couple of weeks in Zambia and mango season is soon approaching but still at least a month or so off. There are mango trees growing everywhere so I’m a bit sad that I won’t be able to just grab a mango off a random ...
Faces
... cracked me up: he’d like to require Zambians to have a license in order to carry matches (to fight the field burning issue). I had the opportunity to go to Ndola (in the copper belt area) with Harrison and Rob to sit through a Farming God’s Way training session. It teaches Zambians to analyze their poverty, appreciate the rich land they’ve been blessed with, and gives them the knowledge to properly tend to their crops. They ...
It’s Heating Up
... her that I owe her another 120,000 Kwacha, about $25. Kumba responded that I wasn’t going to pay anything else since I had already paid for the month and the day I had stayed there. Kumba helped make the arrangements and a couple of days later I moved into a different guesthouse. This one was supposed to be $50 per month more expensive, but I was able to negotiate it for the same rate as the other one because I’ll only be there for three weeks each in October and ...
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