I've lost count of how many trips I've made to Africa, but it's up around 10 or more. I'm fortunate I've come across a company like Jettly to take care of my travels. You can check out their blog, for it has everything you'd need...
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Continuing Spark's three-week series of stories of children whose lives have been transformed by the Spark-Hope partnership, we feature today the story of Astridah Selita, a student at Hope Community School fighting not only poverty but also HIV. Her story is one of the hundreds...
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Spark Ventures has some impressive numbers that help tell about our success….45,000 meals served last year, over $100,000 raised for a poultry farm, more than 300 children receiving free education at our partner school in Zambia. But sometimes the best way to communicate the impact...
Read MoreHi everyone! I am currently in London Heathrow airport's American Airlines lounge (thanks to a very generous friend of my husband's who donated a free flight upgrade for the final leg of my very long trip) and thinking with both excitement and sadness about the end...
Read MoreHi again, everyone! I'm blogging from an internet cafe in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. After a relatively short journey by car (Ba Rodgers is a notoriously fast driver :) ), I arrived yesterday in time to begin discussions with Charles and Sandie on the...
Read MoreHi Everyone! It’s another slow and rainy Saturday here in Ndola. I’m spending the morning in the office preparing for some of the discussion about the poultry farm that I’ll be having in Lusaka starting tomorrow afternoon. It’s a bittersweet day in that...
Read MoreHi everyone! I've just got a short post today. It's one of my last days in Ndola, and I spent the bulk of the day at the school finishing up some final to-do's, including helping some kids to write response letters to their sponsors, working...
Read MoreHello again, everyone! So far this trip, Mama Lillian has been puzzled as to why we have not had more rain, which is the one thing that's able to combat the heat from the sun. Well, she's finally gotten her wish, as we've had two...
Read MoreHello again! It's been a full day at the office, starting yesterday afternoon when I left you last. I was able to train Charles, Mumbi, the office manager as well as the three department heads for Hope Ministries on the new reporting system that we'll...
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