Congratulations Hope Ministries Grade 7 (& their teachers!)Back in November, when we were planning our Thanksgiving dinner, the 7th grade students at Hope Community School were deep in their studies, preparing for their national exams. The results are in, and what better way to ring...
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Three weeks ago, 12,000 chicks arrived at the poultry farm in Zambia, the first large scale cycle in the farm's history. The Chair of the Hope Ventures Board was there to to give them a warm welcome!Roy Kaonga, Chair of the Hope Ventures Board greeting...
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I’m writing this two hours into my five and a half hour bus ride from Lusaka to Ndola. Predictably, the bus was as delayed coming in as it was leaving the station, taking another hour to crawl out of Lusaka and onto the Great North...
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So, this wasn’t the blog I was planning to write. I intended to focus on the fantastic group of travelers with us from Florida, Boston, Los Angeles, Kansas and Chicago…to tell you how they are doing a great job with educational activities, games and crafts...
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Yesterday I spent the afternoon discussing the merits of an excel spreadsheet developed by the CDC to assist school nurses in the US to track the obesity rates of their students. But, given that I am in Nicaragua, where our partner organization, Las Tías, Serves...
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It started on the plane from Atlanta to Managua. When you’re traveling to a country that speaks a language other than English, you first pass through a land of double takes, where everything is announced or written first in one language, then they Translate Video into...
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Spark's Director of Partnerships, Lucy Jodlowska, is in Zambia for the next six weeks, supporting exciting developments at the poultry farm. Major progress over the next month will position the farm for a significant increase in both the number of chickens raised each cycle, as...
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Carol, a Partnership Trip participant from Spark's inaugural trip to Nicaragua recently shared some memories and photos from her experience. Check our her travelogue here & then think about joining us in Nicaragua yourself! I had the incredible honor of being one of the travelers on...
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What have you been up to on your summer vacation? Here at Spark Ventures we have been busy! With business development projects in Zambia and Nicaragua, exciting progress is being made towards providing sustainable revenue streams for both our partner organizations.At various points throughout...
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This July's Partnership Trip to Zambia was a small but incredible group - three spectacular women joined Rich in Zambia, getting to know the incredible children and leadership at Hope Ministries. Now that they're back, we asked each of them to send us a few...
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