Poultry Farm Update
Poultry Farm - Lusaka It’s hard for me to imagine that in just two days I will have been here in Zambia for a month, with just one more week to go. Though I spent a week in Ndola and had...
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31
January
Author: Spark Ventures
When Worlds Collide
Over the past several days, our team of 18 Grouponers have really settled in, playing with the children, participating in the student reading program, touring the village, and spending time with the staff and teachers from Hope Village. There have...
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25
January
Our January Partnership Trip hit the ground running yesterday
Scott Barbeau and SweetnessOur travelers arrived at Hope Ministries for their first full day on the very same day the bi-annual health clinic for the children began. Our travelers spent the morning meeting the staff and the children and being introduced to the work Hope...
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22
January
Stay tuned: Blogging from Zambia to come!
Within the next couple of days, members of the Spark staff will be traveling to Zambia and will be joined by 18 Spark friends from around the country to visit our partner organization, Hope Ministries. Preparations for this journey began many months ago and the...
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15
January
This is the beginning of a beautiful relationship…. Part IHow 18 travelers, 3 guides, 25 local leaders and 350 children with hope created a life-long bondWe have just wrapped up an exceptional 5-day stay in Ndola, Zambia with our first group of those traveling with...
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01
August
Muli shani, Zambia?
Clairelise Rodriguez traveled to Zambia on the Spark Ventures July Partnership TripMuli shani? Bwino!If you’re planning a trip to Zambia—or even just considering one—write this down.Muli shani, meaning how are you?, is the greeting of choice for Bemba-speaking Zambians and bwino!, meaning good!, is the...
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25
July
Windows of Hope for Zambia
My wife, her sister, and I were fortunate enough to come to Zambia a few days before the rest of the group because my wife made some friends here in Ndola on her first trip 5 years ago, who we were able to stay with....
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23
July
Mwaiseni!If there’s one word I would use to describe the feeling in Zambia it would be “Mwaiseni”. It is the Bembe word for “welcome”. It seems no matter where I go or who I meet in this country, everyone says to me, “You are most welcome...
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17
July
Quiet Revolutions
Wednesday, July 11th, 2012 Though it’s only the beginning of the third day that Rich and I are in Zambia, it feels like it’s been much longer. Maybe because of all the long meetings we’ve had thus far and how much work there is still to...
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12
July