Missionary couples in Lusaka. Mission President Kupu and his wife (from Tonga) on the left. Fakalata's, Lewis (wife taking picture), and Jones. Family home evening. We had a great time!
Just some typical streets near our apartment. The vans are their buses... crammed full of people. Notice walkers. Many people walk, often miles to get to work or the store. Few bikes and hardly any scooters.
Some really pretty trees here. Top one has purple flowers and then the pretty red one.
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| This is our Stake Center. Very nice building. We don't attend church here. Ours is a rented facility with regular chairs and no air conditioner but good breeze. |
Today we visited a school in Lusaka to explore a possible project. Many schools here are nice but this one is in a very poor area. They get no help from the government so they do the best they can. Several years ago the church provided building supplies and they built their first building. Since then they have added more rooms as they have money. They also provide some housing for some of the kids who come from bad home situations.
The start of the primary age school.
This is a classroom in the pre and primary age building. The floor is just dirt and these are the frames for their desks. They can't afford the boards for these desks at this time.
Their large room for the school. Notice only one desk available and no other chairs for the other students. This floor is cemented.
This shows three of their best desks in one of the rooms.
This is their computer room. To move to the next grade, they have to take a test each year at a government school and the test for the older kids is on computers. None of their computers actually work so they teach them keyboarding here but no way to see if they are doing it correctly.
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| At this school they provide a bed in a room for some of the kids. This bed is where 3 boys sleep, ages 21, 18, and 16. |
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| Some children outside the school. When I showed them this picture of themselves, they laughed and were so excited. |
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| More sights of Lusaka. These boys had made drums and were beating them in a great rhythm on the street corner while one of them asked for money. |
This is the top floor of our 4-plex apartment. The water tower services the apartment building. We do have good bottled water we can drink.
Looking at the pictures and the condition of their school, I just have to ask, how can we help? It is amazing what people can do with so little.
ReplyDeleteOne of my friends goes to the Congo to teach English in the summers and she just loves the people and the fact that they are so grateful and humble.
I’m sure your service there is very rewarding.
Sandy, yes there are sad conditions in some areas. The best way to help is through the humanitarian fund donations. We have specifically been instructed to not take donations from others or to use our own resources. That is hard sometimes but after hearing some of the stories about couples who have done that and seeing the very significant damage that does, we understand. The people here are great and we are thrilled to help them become more self reliant.
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